NLRB orders Medical Center to Bargain With Nurses

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

Affinity Medical Center in Massillon, Ohio, was ordered torecognize and bargain in good faith with the National Nurses OrganizingCommittee-Ohio on a first contract for its registered nurses, and to reinstate a nurse who was unlawfully terminated...

... For the reasons stated herein, Petitioner Frederick J. Calatrello's petition for injunctive relief is hereby GRANTED. The Court orders the following relief:

1. Respondent, its officers, agents, servants, representatives, successors, and assigns, and all persons acting in concert or participation with them, pending the final disposition of the matters herein pending before the Board, are hereby ORDERED to cease and desist from:

(a) Disciplining, discharging and reporting its employees to the State Board of Nursing because of their Union activities, sympathies, or support.

(b) Refusing to recognize and bargain with the Union.

© Denying the Union and Union organizer Michelle Mahon access to all areas of its property.

(d) Scrutinizing employees' work in view of employees.

(e) Telling employees that they would enjoy disciplining known union supporters.

(f) Threatening to harm employees who submit Assignment Despite Objection Forms.

(g) Imposing more onerous working conditions on employees because the employees engaged in protected concerted and/or union activities.

(h) In any like or related manner interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed them under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act.

2. Respondent, its officers, agents, servants, representatives, successors, and assigns, and all persons acting in concert or participation with them, pending the final disposition of the matters herein pending before the NLRB, are hereby ORDERED to

(a) Recognize, and upon request, bargain in good faith with the Union as the exclusive collective bargaining representative of the employees concerning their wages, hours and [*5] other terms and conditions of employment;

(b) Within five days of this Order offer, in writing, immediate interim reinstatement to Ann Wayt to her former job, at her previous wages and other terms or conditions of employment, displacing if necessary any worker(s) hired or transferred to replace her, or if her former job no longer exists, to a substantially equivalent position, without prejudice to her seniority ...

http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/FREDERICK_J_CALATRELLO_REGIONAL_DIRECTOR_REGION_8_OF_THE_NATIONAL

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

......I hope this is the first of many reprimands on facilities acting so heinously. I was an administrator that behaved this way...I didn't stay long.

One for the Union!

[whichone'spink, BSN, RN]

Now they need to look at Florida. Too many facilities acting this way.