Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Labor experts said that the two-month lag time between HUCTW's announcement of support for a vote and the election was typical. But the union's immediate agitation against Harvard--about what it termed prompt action on the election--would linger through all subsequent negotiations and hostilities between the two sides...
After the union won the right to represent the support staff in collective bargaining by a narrow 44-vote margin, the University challenged the election, claiming that HUCTW organizers were guilty of illegal electioneering on election...
...union called Harvard's appeal an anti-union tactic, accusing them of using the delay to take advantage of summer employee turnover--which is near 40 percent--to weaken the union. If Harvard had won its appeal the vote would have been retaken...
...this battle of rhetoric, the University said that it had an obligation to the staff members who had not voted for the union--which, including those who did not vote at all, was more than 50 percent of the staff--to oppose the election if HUCTW organizers had intimidated employees to vote...
However, an NLRB judge ruled on Monday that the union was not guilty of illegal campaigning on election day, saying the vote was valid and the union should be certified...