NLRB's Specialty Healthcare Test Comes To Acute Care

Law360, New York (April 23, 2015, 12:33 PM EDT) -- Ever since 1974, when the National Labor Relations Board first took jurisdiction over health care institutions, the board has paid particular attention to the impact of union organizing on the delivery of health care in this industry in general and of acute care hospitals in particular. When the National Labor Relations Act was first amended in 1974, Congress stated its objective at the time was to avoid a "proliferation of bargaining units" as one method to limit the inevitable disruption created by numerous elections and negotiations, while at the same time balancing employees' opportunity to exercise their Section 7 rights to organize and collectively bargain....

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