Federal Judge Administrative Law Judge Finds that Saint John's Administration Violated Nurse's Rights!

Despite CEO Lou Lazatin's Claims Saint John's would follow Labor Law...

On June 21st, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Saint John’s management had broken federal labor law and interfered with it's own RNs’ right to form, join or assist a union. RNs, elected and labor leaders and community supporters spoke out about the decision at a rally and press conference in front of the hospital on July 8.

Read the Federal Judge's Decision
Read the Santa Monica Daily Press Coverage of the Rally
Read the Santa Monica Mirror article about the issues

In response to the decision, Saint John’s RN Lori Hammond said:

"Since the beginning of our efforts to organize with California Nurses Association we have requested for management to take the high road and at the very least, agree to respect NLRB laws and follow the Bishop's recommendations for fair elections. We suspected that our management was incapable of respecting these laws and the verdict against them makes it clear that our concerns were true. Now there is no place where Saint Johns Management can hide from their bad behavior. Saint Johns Nurses continue to believe that they deserve, at the very least, the right to a fair election. We want nothing more than to proceed with this hope."

The Ruling

The Administrative Law Judges found that Saint John's Health Center management:

Illegally interrogated RNs
Illegally prohibited RNs from wearing ribbons reading “Saint John’s RNs for Safe Patient Care”
Illegally threatened RNs with discipline if they continued to wear the ribbons
Illegally barred off-duty employees from campaigning for the union in the hospital
Illegally threatened off-duty employees with calling the police and having them arrested
Illegally created the impression that off duty employees’ union activities were under surveillance