NY Hospital Punished Worker for Union Activity, NLRB Judge Rules

A Long Island hospital violated federal labor law by interrogating, threatening, suspending, and discharging an employee for her union activities, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.

Mount Sinai South Nassau also illegally refused to hire Marylene Teopengco-Merritt as a per diem registered nurse—a position that the hospital had requisitioned—after she was told she could transfer from her job coordinating services for neuro-spine cases to that nurse role, Administrative Law Judge Benjamin Green held Tuesday.

“That the per diem RN requisition inexplicably vanished despite two written reassurances that it was available is also, itself, a strong reason to believe the ...