It is an obvious conflict of interest for a supervisor to be a union member who supervises workers who are also union members.
Yet, that is what many nurses around the country want.
The California Nurses Association and the AFL-CIO are worried that the National Labor Relations Board will decide that many registered nurses are supervisors and cannot join unions.
Under NLRB rules, supervisors are barred from joining unions and can be subject to dismissal or other disciplinary actions if they participate in union activities.
CNA and the AFL-CIO plan to sponsor protest rallies in Los Angeles and possibly in other cities, if the NLRB rules that registered nurses who are supervisors cannot join unions.
Nurses should focus their attention on providing the best possible health care to patients who will hardly benefit from nurses carrying picket signs.
