After months of waiting, no clear victor emerges
And the winner is? No one.
The hospital has to pay. The workers get a check — and not much more. The union can still argue for an card-check election, but its legal route is more unclear than ever.
If anyone — or anything — wins out, in fact, it is the doctrine of federal labor law and a ubiquitous New Deal relic: the National Labor Relations Board.
“We don’t have the power to supersede the NLRB,” Board of Aldermen President Carl Goldfield said in an interview Tuesday. “If somebody wants to resort to it, we don’t have any control over that.”
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