From the Harvard Crimson: The National Labor Relations Board found last week that Harvard violated federal labor law by refusing to share the findings of an investigation into a dispute between officers in the Harvard University Police Department with the union representing the police force’s rank-and-file members. The Dec. 23 decision by Paul Bogas, an administrative judge at the NLRB, requires the University to immediately provide the Harvard University Police Association with a copy of the investigative report. Bogas wrote that Harvard violated federal labor law by refusing to provide the union with requested information necessary for its role as the employees’ exclusive bargaining representative...
The union’s grievance dates back to an April 2024 disagreement between HUPD Captain John F. Fulkerson and former detective Kelsey L. Whelihan about how a reported sexual assault involving a Harvard student was handled...
Bogas ruled that Harvard “utterly failed” to prove that the report was confidential after [Zachery] See [associate director of Harvard’s Office of Labor and Employee Relations] — the only witness called to testify on the report’s contents — admitted in the hearing that he had not read the report before refusing to provide it to the HUPA. Bogas added that See’s testimony “brings to mind a child who covers both ears and hums to avoid understanding an unwelcome communication.” ...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/12/31/nlrb-finds-harvard-violated-labor-law/.
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