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...Beth Israel's case against Local 880 reached the Supreme Court in a climate of intense hostility and suspicion engendered by this series of events. In October 1974, Dr. Mitchell T. Rabkin '51, director of Beth Israel, ordered a technical employee, Anne Schunior, to stop distributing a union pamphlet in the hospital cafeteria, to which patients and visitors have access. At this time, Beth Israel's rules forbade the distribution of union literature in the cafeteria, although it allowed one-to-one union solicitation by employees of other employees during non-working hours in the cafeteria. The hospital did permit...
Rabkin then followed up his verbal warning with a letter telling Schunior she would be fired if the incident was repeated. Schunior says she was careful to ask when handing out the pamphlets whether the recipient was a patient or an employee. After this incident, Local 880 filed a grievance with the NLRB charging an unfair labor practice that violated Section 7 of the NLRA. Section 7 guarantees employees the right to choose whether or not they want to join a union. After the complaint was filed, the hospital changed its rule to forbid one-to-one solicitation...
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