GW University Hospital Broke Labor Law, NLRB Says in Do-Over

The George Washington University Hospital violated federal labor law numerous times while negotiating a new contract with the union representing some of its staff, the National Labor Relations Board ruled.

In its decision Wednesday, two of the board’s Democratic members held that the hospital unilaterally withdrew its recognition of a Service Employees International Union local and changed workplace rules without fully bargaining, in violation of the National Labor Relations Act.

The NLRB previously dismissed the case in 2021, but the board vacated the decision two years later because William Emanuel, a former board member who was found to have ...