SEIU Local Illegally Withheld Information From Stanford Hospitals, NLRB Panel Finds

Service Employees International Union Local 715 violated the National Labor Relations Act by refusing to respond to requests by two hospitals in Palo Alto, Calif., for information about the reorganization and merger of the local, which represents the hospitals’ employees, the National Labor Relations Board found Aug. 6 (Service Employees Int’l Union Local 715.

Upholding a 2008 decision by an administrative law judge, a three-member NLRB panel found that the information requested by Stanford Hospitals & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital concerning both Local 715 and its sister Local 521 was “relevant to the Stanford’s legitimate interest ...