NLRB Judge Finds Clinic Coerced Workers in Decertification Push

A Colorado medical clinic committed numerous violations of federal labor law by unilaterally changing working conditions, threatening employees, and coercing them to support a campaign to decertify a union, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.

NLRB Administrative Law Judge Brian Gee said in a decision Thursday that management at St. Mary Corwin Medical Center in Pueblo, Colo. illegally solicited signatures for a petition to oust the Communications Workers of America as the employees’ representative. CWA has represented medical and office staff at the clinic since 1974, according to the decision.

The company made illegal threats and offered to give ...