title: Decertification elections in health care: some recent evidence.
abstract: This article examines union decertification elections conducted by the National Labor Relations Board between January 1999 and February 2002 in hospitals and nursing and residential care facilities. Employees petitioned 92% of all decertification elections. Service Employees International Union was involved in nearly 43% of all decertification elections and won 57%. Forty-three percent of all decertification elections involved bargaining units with 50 employees or less. Unions lost 66% of decertification elections in departments, but won 75% in bargaining units consisting of both professional and clerical employees. The union win rate in non-right-to-work states was 52% compared with 37% in right-to-work states.
authors.affiliation: Department of Management, Haworth College of Business, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA.
authors.forename: Satish P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Deshpande
authors.forename: Jacob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Joseph
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification; D003098:Collective Bargaining; D006302:Health Services Research; D006739:Hospital Administration; D007750:Labor Unions / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States