Business in the Burbs

SEIU claims victory in hospital organizing vote

December

Business staff at Sound Shore Medical Center in New Rochelle and Mount Vernon Hospital voted 4-to-1 today to join United Healthcare Workers East, Local 1199 of Service Employees International Union, a union organizer said yesterday.
The vote was 106 to 24, with seven votes challenged, said Minerva Solla, vice president with the union’s organizing department. There will be 216 workers in the unit, she said.
Local 1199 also represents more than 900 service and technical workers at the New Rochelle and Mount Vernon hospitals.
Officials from the National Labor Relations Board, which oversaw the election, could not be reached for comment.

This entry was posted on Friday, December 12th, 2008 at 7:06 pm by Jerry Gleeson. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Category: Health care, Labor

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