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In a decision closely distinguished from an opinion handed down by the Supreme Court last year, the National Labor Relations Board ruled last Thursday that twenty doctors employed by the Occupational Health Centers of New Jersey could form a union. This decision reopens slightly the door to organization attempts by the American Medical Association's union Physicians for Responsible Negotiations that were all but closed off by the Supreme Court's ruling that health care workers responsible for the supervision of other health care workers do not have the right to unionize. Occupational Health Centers has announced its intention to appeal the NLRB's decision, stating that it wants to clear up the propriety of doctor unionization at its facilities.