Registered nurses in Oakland and Los Angeles began a series of protests Tuesday against a ruling expected to be issued by the National Labor Relations Board that they say could undermine labor's strength and deny many skilled workers the right to join unions. The yet-to-be-issued ruling could reclassify hundreds of thousands of registered nurses as supervisors if their jobs require them to direct others, potentially taking them out of union ranks.
See "Expected labor ruling draws nurses' protest", George Raine, San Francisco Chronicle, July 11, 2006