In a ruling released yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board, now stacked with Bush administration appointees hostile to unions and the rights of working people, declared that hospital RNs across the country who exercise professional clinical judgment in the interests of patients are “supervisors,” and thus ineligible to join unions. In a dissent to the 3-2 ruling, two NLRB members warned that the decision could ultimately disenfranchise every professional employee in the nation, up to one-fourth of the total U.S. workforce by 2012, of their rights to form and join unions.
Registered Nurses, other labor activists, and community supporters are gathering to protest this decision today, Thursday, October 5, in Chicago, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Louisville (Kentucky) and Bangor (Maine). The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee is sponsoring the joint action.
Chicago
12-1pm
1900 West Polk Street
Los Angeles
March: 11:30 a.m., 1401 NW corner of Wilshire and Whitmer, across from Good Samaritan Hospital
Rally: 12:30 p.m. National Labor Relations Board office, 888 So. Figueroa St., Corner of 9th and Figueroa
St. Louis
4:30 pm
Robert A. Young Federal Building, 1222 Spruce St., SW corner of Tucker Blvd. and Spruce St.
Louisville
4 pm
Louisville Medical Center, Broadway and Floyd, Northeast Corner
Bangor
4:15 pm
Cascade Park, near Eastern Maine Medical Center
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