Nurses ready to right back. Ruling that full-time charge nurses can't belong to unions has labor leaders determined to work for ways around it.
Nurse labor leaders are fighting mad over last week's ruling that full-time charge nurses aren't eligible for union membership. Labor and healthcare insiders say the decision leaves gray areas that will have to be settled at the negotiating table. Barbara Medvec, left, an executive at the system that brought the case before the NLRB, says she finds the "silence" on part-time charge nurses puzzling.
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