Word: shea
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...when Beth Israel's service employees voted, 325-122, not to join the union. The union conducted another organizing campaign at the Boston Hospital for Women in 1976, and again the workers voted against the union. However, after the election the staff director for the union, Gerald M. Shea, filed a complaint with the NLRB alleging that the hospital had intimidated and coerced its workers, and in one incident, attempted bribery. Shea says the Board ruled in the winter of 1977 that the hospital was guilty of illegal practices in the election of October 1976, and offered the union...
...supporters in Illinois have adopted a savvy approach to politicking. The usually nonpartisan League of Women Voters has joined the ERA backers. The women of the League have hired three of the state's toughest lobbyists, one of them, Gerald Shea, a former Illinois house majority leader who has close ties to the Chicago Democratic machine...
...watch the Mets, unless you're at Shea with a couple of sixpacks of Rheingold. Do shed a tear for Jerry Koosman, one of the classiest guys in sports...
...where, oh where, are the jokes? Is it funny that the Rutles' first big hit song is called Hold My Hand instead of I Want to Hold Your Hand? Or that their largest American concert is held at New York's Che Stadium, not Shea Stadium? Is it a howl that John and Yoko (here named Ron and Chastity) hold their famous antiwar press conference in a bathtub rather than a bed? This is not humor; it's just British undergraduate silliness...
Local 880 has hardly given up on the Harvard teaching hospitals. It is simply waiting until the time is right to begin mounting a third unionizing drive at Beth Israel, and once the union gains workers' support at one of the major hospitals Shea is convinced that others will quickly come under Local 880's representation. The big target ultimately eyed by the union is Mass General, the bastion of the Eastern medical establishments, with an estimated 3000 service employees compared to about 900 at Beth Israel. When Local 880 goes after Mass General, there will be a big fight...