Nurses union wins labor complaint against North Memorial

Source: Star Tribune

By Jeremy Olson

An administrative law judge has ruled against North Memorial Health Care for disrupting union activities around the time of a June 2014 demonstration and firing a worker who clashed with a hospital official over placing a flier on a bulletin board.

Ruling on behalf of the National Labor Relations Board, the judge ordered North Memorial to allow union officials to freely talk and interact in public places of the hospital with their members, and to hire back the fired employee to an equivalent job with back pay.

“We are pleased that the board has vindicated our rights to represent our union,” said Joe McMahon, a labor-relations specialist with the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA), in a statement released Friday.

Melvin Anderson was fired June 27, 2014, under the pretense of his attendance record, but he also had argued with a hospital official over a flier he posted in the department where he worked.

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