Judge upholds Doctors Medical Center election results; more to come?

As you may recall from last year (long before my blog came about) the good folks at Doctors Medical Center voted 158 to 24 to get out of SEIU. Of course they complained and filed charges with the NLRB, but really it was all stalling. A stalling tactic that has finally been put to rest. Perhaps this is the first in a long line of defeats for the Zombies.

NLRB decides in favor of Memorial workers; recap of employer objections hearing

After just four days of NLRB hearings, replete with conflicting witness accounts and relentless attempts to delay the inevitable the NLRB performed a lightning quick turn around on and dismissal of the unfair labor practices charges Memorial management filed.

Check out the NLRB's dismissal below then check out what NUHW has to say about remaining 4 objections brought about by Memorial management and what's next for workers.

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Here's NUHW's recap of the hearing, and prospects on future actions. The most shocking part of this recap: the amount of money Memorial management spent on a very expensive expert witness testimony that failed to offer an opinion in management's favor. Image what that sum of money could have been better spent on. Oh, let me count the ways....

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So perhaps not the last hurdle I had hoped it would be; however, when these hurdles are confronted they are easily cleared. I'm sure management is going to throw their own employees under the bus at every turn, by spending obscene amounts of cash to frustrate and delay the workers choice to unionize just so they can satisfy top management's need for ever bigger bonuses, dictatorial control, and downsizing in the name of "efficient" patient care. Stay strong fellow healthcare workers, you're almost at the end of this election dismissing nonsense!

Judge Jon S. Tigar to Zombie UHW: "Quit yer bitchin!"

The Zombies learned the hard way that they can't have it both ways. They can't complain about NUHW's legal representation after firing the same law firm from Zombie UHW. Just like any other job in the world, when you are fired you don't have to listen to your former boss anymore. At issue here is the Zombies' claim of simultaneous representation, as in the Zombies claimed that Jon Siegel, a lawyer for NUHW was simultaneously representing both unions. In reality Siegel represented UHW-W before the trusteeship and like anyone with a soul, he continued his work after the trusteeship, for NUHW. Clearly that was a claimed intended to drain NUHW's legal resources, but it back fired in the following 4 glorious words:

"...plantiff's [UHW-W's] motion is denied" which is legal-ease for "afraid not!" What am I talking about? Read for yourself.