Third time a charm?
Nurses at Catholic hospital in Fresno must decide again whether pro-abortion union will represent them after judge annuls vote last year rejecting California Nurses Association
Nurses at St. Agnes Medical Center, a Catholic hospital in Fresno, must vote again on whether they want the pro-abortion California Nurses Association to represent them, a federal administrative law judge has ruled.
William L. Schmidt, an administrative law judge with the National Labor Relations Board, issued an eight-page ruling on Jan. 22, in which he concluded the May 2008 election in which St. Agnes nurses voted 452 to 327 against CNA representation should be nullified. Schmidt said hospital administrators failed to post a sufficient number of notices about the election and that some required notices were not posted “until several hours after 12:01 a.m., May 16…,” a deadline specified in NLRB regulations.
A new election has been ordered for March 11-12, making the third time St. Agnes nurses have been asked to vote on whether they want CNA representation. They rejected the union in last year’s May 21-22 vote, and also in a 1998 election.
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