NLRB Region Collects $1 Million Payment To Resolve Charge Against Nursing Center

The National Labor Relations Board’s Region 20 office in San Francisco collected a payment of $1 million to compensate nursing home employees who were denied employment because of their union representation or because the purchaser of a nursing facility wanted to avoid bargaining with an incumbent union, the agency announced April 17 (Nasaky, Inc.).

An NLRB administrative law judge found in August 2012 that when Nasaky Inc. and Thekkek Health Services Inc. bought a nursing facility, they denied employment to the workers because they were represented by SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West and illegally refused to recognize or bargain ...