Union and anti-union officials will finally get to find out who has the greater influence over the 1200 UAW-represented nurses at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo, OH. A National Labor Relations Board spokesman announced yesterday that a union decertification election has been scheduled for April 11-13 by agreement of both sides and hospital officials. The deal comes on the heals of a ruling last month on a complaint by a hospital worker that union representatives had attempted to coerce and intimidate workers involved in the effort to dump the UAW.
See "Label vote slated on status of union at St. Vincent", Jon Chavez, Toledo Blade, March 22, 2007