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Union says no to election

Hospital’s proposal for new election agreement is rejected; arbitrator’s decision pending

Staff Reporter
Published Monday, April 30, 2007

In a letter released on Friday, the union seeking to organize at Yale-New Haven Hospital soundly rejected a hospital proposal for a new Election Principles Agreement, demanding instead that an independent arbitrator force the hospital to recognize the union.

After months of asking SEIU/1199 to discuss how to hold a new election, the hospital outlined explicitly what it would offer in exchange for a new election in a letter dated April 16. The letter, addressed to a union negotiator who is also an assistant to SEIU’s president, was met with a strongly-worded reply from the...

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