Court Trims Ex-SEIU Organizer’s Discrimination, Retaliation Suit

Service Employees International Union Healthcare 1199NW convinced a federal court to cut a former nurse’s hostile work environment claim out of her state anti-discrimination law and reprisal suit.

But Angel Roberson can pursue a disparate treatment claim for the race and gender bias she alleged, the US District Court for the Western District of Washington said in a Wednesday opinion.

Roberson’s lawsuit stems from a pay scale system promulgated by a collective bargaining agreement between SEIU and the 1199 NW staff union. The former Providence St. Peter Hospital nurse, a Black woman, alleges SEIU ...