Service Employees Union awaiting NLRB decision regarding when election will be conducted at nursing

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.midatlanticlabor.com/appiesnet/wordpress/?p=697

By PAUL TUCKER
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BETHLEHEM, December 17th- The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Pennsylvania Union, is awaiting the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Region Four in Philadelphia decision on when a election will be conducted to determine if employees of the Good Shepherd in Bethlehem want the union to represent them.

In the previous edition of the newspaper it was exclusively reported the SEIU petitioned the NLRB on October 15th, 2008, requesting the agency conduct an Representation Election, to determine if 55 employees of Good Shepherd want the SEIU/Healthcare Pennsylvania, North 2nd Street in Harrisburg, formerly called SEIU/1199P, to be their representative for the purpose of collectively bargaining.

According to the petition, obtained by the newspaper through the Freedom of Information Act, the union requested all full-time and regularly part-time certified nursing assistants, unit secretaries, housekeepers, laundry aids, and van drivers employed by the employer at their Schoenersville Road facility to be eligible to vote.

On October 28th, the NLRB conducted a hearing in Easton on which employees will be eligible to participate in the election.

However, the newspaper has learned the NLRB Region Four in Philadelphia decision is under review by the NLRB in Washington, DC.

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