Planned paternalism

After two-and-a-half years of waiting, Medical Area workers last June got a chance to vote on the issue of union representation--and promptly rejected the bid of District 65, Distributive Workers of America, to represent them in their future dealings with Harvard. The vote followed an intensive publicity campaign by the University, which stressed the view that workers would be better off if District 65, a New York-based union, didn't represent them. And, of course, if Harvard could be let alone to provide them with the good things in life.