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January 6, 2005NMH nurses to vote on unionByRecord-Eagle staff writer PETOSKEY - Both striking and working nurses at Northern Michigan Hospital may soon have their third vote in four years on whether the Teamsters union will continue to represent them. Striking nurse Dennis Johnson on Wednesday gave the National Labor Relations Board a petition signed by nurses seeking a decertification vote on Teamsters Local 406 to determine if it will remain the nurses' bargaining agent. Hospital management last month said it received petitions signed by a majority of NMH's nurses stating they no longer wished to be associated with the Teamsters. Management declared they wouldn't recognize and negotiate with the union as the nurses' representative. Hospital officials will not make that petition available for review, Johnson said. Messages left with hospital officials and attorney Steven Fishman were not returned Wednesday. The Teamsters won a decertification vote in 2003 by a wider margin than when the union was first installed by NMH nurses in 2001. Almost certain to become an issue is which nurses are eligible to sign the petitions and vote. NLRB regional director Stephen Glasser said employees can't cast ballots in such an election if on strike for more than a year, but that only applies if they've been permanently replaced.
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