Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fall 1974: District 65 submits its petition for an election with the regional branch of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The University contests the bargaining unit, saying that the union may not organize in one seperate area of the campus. The NLRB finds with Harvard...
...NLRB agrees to review the decision made by its regional board concerning the size of the bargaining unit...
...union petitions the NLRB for a third election. In hearings before the board, Harvard again contests the bargaining unit...
...average wait for an election is 60 days, during which time the NLRB defines which workers are eligible to vote as part of the union's potential "bargaining unit." But previous elections at Harvard have been delayed for up to two years by legal challenges from the University administration. During this election the administration is expected to erect legal stumbling blocks to delay the union campaign on whether research assistants or other categories of workers should be eligible to vote...
...that the administration has gotten its way, putting all conceivable barriers in front of the union, it is high time to let the employees make their own choice. When filing its election petition yesterday, the union defined the bargaining unit in the same terms as the administration used in the past, to avoid further legal conflict. Harvard should abide by its own rules, as well...