title: Separate bargaining units in the health care industry: crisis for professional nurses in the USA.
abstract: An in depth discussion of the 1974 amendment to the National Labor Relations Act which was extended to cover employees of non-profit health care institutions. The controversial congressional intent behind the amendment is examined in historical context from two points of view viz The Board (NLRB) and the Circuit Courts. The author sets out to show that public interest will best be served by separate bargaining units.
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Popp
mesh_terms: D003098:Collective Bargaining / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D007884:Legislation, Nursing; D014481:United States