Article published April 17, 2007
St. Vincent’s nurses reject quitting UAW
Nurses at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center rejected an attempt to end their union affiliation with the United Auto Workers by a two-to-one margin, a National Labor Relations Board official said yesterday.
Randy Malloy, assistant to the regional director of the NLRB in Cleveland, said the effort to decertify the union that represents nearly 1,200 registered nurses at the Toledo hospital was rejected by a vote of 587 to 263.
The election, which was held over three days last week, was done under the oversight of the NLRB and under the agreement among the union, the hospital administration, and the anti-union National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Inc.
Neither Sue Pratt, chairman of the RN unit of UAW Local 12, nor Patrick Semmens, of the Springfield, Va.-based group that assisted the nurses in trying to get rid of the union, would comment on the outcome.
The nurses joined the UAW in October, 1999, after a close vote to unionize. Mr. Malloy said that either party has until Friday to file an objection.
“If no objections are filed, we will then issue a certification of representation,” he said.
A hearing on a charge file by a nurse who was among those trying to oust the union has been scheduled for April 24 in Cleveland before an NLRB administrative law judge.
The complaint alleges that participants in the anti-UAW campaign were coerced and intimidated by union representatives during efforts to circulate petitions for the decertification vote.
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