Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, sent a memo this week to all Medical Area personnel reaffirming Harvard's adamant stand against a clerical and technical workers' union that is not University wide.
Steiner said when the Medical Area Employees' Organizing Committee files a request for a union-forming election--which will probably happen before the end of the month--Harvard will ask for a National Labor Relations Board hearing in order to contend that a medical-area clerical union is inappropriate.
Steiner also denied in the memo a request by the committee for immediate recognition as the sole bargaining agent for Medical Area clerical workers.
So it looks as if the hearing Harvard is now involved in with a printers' union could be just a warmup exercise for a much more important hearing later in the month, when the University and the Medical Area group will hash out the representation issue.
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