Deshpande Satish P, Joseph Jacob
Department of Management, Haworth College of Business, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA.
Health Care Manag (Frederick). 2003 Apr-Jun;22(2):108-12. doi: 10.1097/00126450-200304000-00004.
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.
本文考察了1999年1月至2002年2月期间美国国家劳动关系委员会在医院、护理及住宿护理机构举行的工会撤销认证选举。员工发起了所有撤销认证选举中的92%。国际服务员工会参与了所有撤销认证选举中的近43%,并赢得了其中的57%。所有撤销认证选举中有43%涉及员工人数为50人或更少的谈判单位。工会在部门级别的撤销认证选举中输掉了66%,但在由专业员工和文职员工组成的谈判单位中赢得了75%。在非工作权利法州,工会的胜率为52%,而在工作权利法州这一比例为37%。