The National Labor Relations Board has proposed rule changes that would significantly reduce the time between the date the union requests an election and the date the NLRB conducts the election. These changes, if implemented, would dramatically affect an employer’s ability to communicate with its employees before an NLRB election, and would give unions a
NLRB Issues Complaint Against California Nurses Association For Interfering with Employees’ Rights and For Failing to Bargain
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On April 29th the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a complaint against the California Nurses Association (CNA) for interfering with and coercing employees in their right not to engage in union activity, as well as for altering employees’ terms and conditions of employment without the employer’s agreement or consent. After negotiating a contract…
Summer Internships Are Not Free Labor
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Kansas City Nurses Leave Union After Contested Election
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Posted in Labor
Fifteen months after nurses at Lee’s Summit Medical Center voted 68 – 59 to decertify the National Nurses Organizing Committee (“NNOC”), the NNOC has announced it will withdraw as the unit’s bargaining agent. The NNOC’s decision to withdraw came days before the second certification election was scheduled to be held. Approximately 130 nurses would have…
NNU Negotiates Short Staffing Penalty Clause
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On December 1, 2010, NNU’s affiliate, the Michigan Nurses Association (MNA) ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with Sparrow Hospital in Lansing calling for penalties of up to $1,200 in cases where the Hospital fails to rectify a staffing shortage. The Union claims that this new staffing language is “second to none.”
Economic terms of…