Nurses at Research vote for a union

[pstokely]

Source: KC Star

For the second time in two years, registered nurses at Research Medical Center have voted in favor of union representation.

A spokeswoman for the National Nurses Organizing Committee of National Nurses United said the vote this week was 260 to 92 in favor of the union.

About two-thirds of the 554 eligible members of the nursing staff participated in the election, and about three-fourths of the participants voted for the union.

This was the second organizing vote in which the union prevailed. The first was in September 2010, but a re-vote was requested by some nurses who opposed unionization.



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[Greybnk48]

1. Good. I hope this happens all over the country. n/t

[danbeee46]

2. A great victory, but.....

...if the Rethugs had their way, this would have been a loss. They want to change the rules so that a non-vote would be considered a vote against unionization. Therefore, a union would need 50% +1 of all eligible members, whether they vote or note. In this case the union would have needed 278 votes --- they only received 260.

[siligut]

3. The opposed nurses didn't get what they wanted, so they had a re-vote?

Of course, the hospital administration is also opposed, so maybe that had an influence.