Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Murphy and Grady are both in favor of the housing projects, neither buys the contention that the homes are contingent on the plant's construction. Grady calls the linkup blackmail, while Murphy contends that because Edison is supplying electricity to the housing, only a small steam unit is needed for the housing...
...articulately. In the Medical Area, District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America, the union chosen by a majority of the clerical and technical employees, petitioned the NLRB in February for permission to hold a union-forming election. Harvard opposes the petition, maintaining that the only appropriate bargaining unit for these workers, under the National Labor Relations Act, would be University-wide...
...board favors Harvard, and Powers professes absolute confidence that it will, the union question for the Medical Area will have been effectively laid to rest. But if District 65's petition is upheld after the resolution of a few minor issues related to membership in the bargaining unit, Powers and Harvard will have the touchy problem of an NLRB administered union election--with all its attendant difficulties--on their hands, possibly before the end of the academic year...
...side in the District 65 case. As Steiner wrote in a memorandum to Medical Area personnel during the summer, "In our view none of the 15 or so precedents supports the union's position. In a case involving Tulane, for example, the board found that an appropriate unit must include employees at the main campus and those at a Medical Center five miles from the main campus, and at research centers 15 to 40 miles from the main campus...
Taylor's essential idea was to organize the work unit along the same lines that Eli Whitney had organized production. Traditional management had little exact knowledge of the time a job should take, the tools best adapted to a task or the pace at which a man should work. Taylor's innovation-time-and-motion study-was based on a painstaking analysis of work: the exact number of elementary operations or motions, the time required to do these, the elimination of waste motions and the recombination of these times and motions into a mathematical formula...