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Hospital ordered to pay $4.5M

Independent arbitrator rules against Yale-New Haven for ‘methodical dismantling’ of fair election

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Marking a watershed in the unionization dispute between Yale-New Haven Hospital and the union seeking to organize workers there, an independent arbitrator has ordered the hospital to pay employees and the union $4.5 million in damages.

In a 47-page report released yesterday, independent arbitrator Margaret Kern rejected the union’s request for a bargaining order but found that a majority of eligible workers had signed authorization cards in support of a union last fall. Both hospital...

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