The National Labor Relations Board has thrown out the results of a June election at Flagstaff (Ariz.) Medical Center in which the nurses voted 242-211 against joining the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association. The NLRB said the election was marred by the medical center’s widespread interference with the nurses’ democratic right to vote.
In a 32-page report, an NLRB hearing officer said medical center officials “threatened employees with the loss of annual merit increases and thereby engaged in objectionable conduct.” Such threats, the hearing officer added, “would interfere with employee free choice in the election.” Currently, no major hospitals in Arizona are unionized. Read the press release.
