\nHouston, Texas (April 3, 2009)<\/b> \u2013 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) prosecutors have filed a complaint this week against Tenet Healthcare Corporation after it entered into a backroom deal with union officials designed to force nurses into union ranks at multiple Houston-area hospitals.\n<\/p>\n
\nWith free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, two Houston-area nurses, Esther Marissa Cuellar, a nurse at Tenet\u2019s Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center, and Linda D. Bertrand, a nurse at Tenet\u2019s Park Plaza Hospital and Medical Center, filed unfair labor practice charges alleging that an \u201cElection Procedures Arrangement\u201d (EPA) Tenet and California Nurses Association (CNA) union officials secretly established violates employees\u2019 rights.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe unfair labor practice charges also allege that Tenet officials provided CNA union operatives with unlawful organizing assistance in violation of federal statutes: In Tenet healthcare facilities, outside union organizers are given free reign to aggressively push for a union presence; but Tenet nurses who oppose unionization, on the other hand, are forbidden from using Tenet facilities to express their views.\n<\/p>\n
The NLRB regional office in Fort Worth consolidated the two nurses\u2019 charges and filed a formal complaint against Tenet Healthcare Corporation. Trial proceedings in the case are scheduled to take place before an NLRB Administrative Law Judge at the NLRB Courtroom in Houston on May 26.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cCNA union bosses and complicit Tenet Corporation officials must be held accountable for this scheme to push nurses into union ranks,\u201d said Stefan Gleason, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cCNA union bosses are pursuing a coercive organizing campaign \u2013 making it more difficult for employees to resist the CNA\u2019s professional union organizers \u2013 to force unwilling nurses across the state of Texas and our country into forced-dues-paying union ranks.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\nTo date, CNA union organizers have successfully obtained monopoly bargaining privileges at one Houston-area Tenet healthcare facility under similarly controversial circumstances and have expanded their coercive organizing efforts in Tenet facilities nationwide. Recently a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-area registered nurse, with help from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, filed similar unfair labor practice charges against Tenet and CNA union officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nHouston, Texas (April 3, 2009)<\/b> \u2013 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) prosecutors have filed a complaint this week against Tenet Healthcare Corporation after it entered into a backroom deal with union officials designed to force nurses into union ranks at multiple Houston-area hospitals.\n<\/p>\n
\nWith free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, two Houston-area nurses, Esther Marissa Cuellar, a nurse at Tenet\u2019s Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center, and Linda D. Bertrand, a nurse at Tenet\u2019s Park Plaza Hospital and Medical Center, filed unfair labor practice charges alleging that an \u201cElection Procedures Arrangement\u201d (EPA) Tenet and California Nurses Association (CNA) union officials secretly established violates employees\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n