In Toledo, Ohio, nurses at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center have asked the National Labor Relations Board to supervise an election that will determine if the United Auto Workers (UAW) should be removed as the bargaining agent for the nurses.
The petition to decertify the union, which was filed on July 21, must have signatures from 30 percent of those in the nurses bargaining unit if the NLRB is to grant their request for an election.
The NLRB is also investigating a charge of unfair labor practices that has been filed against the union by the nurses.
This is just another example of unions not delivering on their promises and alienating once loyal union members. For many years, organized labor has proven to be too self-serving, neither helping their members, nor adding to the profitability and productivity of a vast array of U. S. companies. Such actions as those being taken by the nurses in Toledo speak volumes about the sad state of organized labor in the 21st Century.
