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CNA Tactics
Workers'
families, pets threatened
because they
didn't want the union
Scott Barnes did not want to be represented by the California
Nurses Association, which sought to impose itself on the nurses
at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 2002. To express his
opinion, he posted these words on a website: “If the CNA is
voted in, membership will NOT be voluntary, and YOU
WILL have to give them $80 per month whether you like
it or not. If the CNA really cared about any of us, they would
let their reputation speak for itself, but they have no
reputation and they have to force you to join.” Subsequently,
Barnes began to receive anonymous threatening calls saying that
he should stop “f***ing with the union” and that his pet dogs
might come to harm if he didn't.
Threatening calls were also made to Christine Foxon, another
nurse with whom Barnes had co-founded an independent nurses'
group. One caller said he knew she “had two young daughters” and
she needed to “think about her family and her girls and back
off.” After one of these calls, Foxon dialed *69 and discovered
that she had been called from an office of the CNA.
After reviewing the evidence, the National Labor Relations Board
found that the union's menacing behavior had made a fair
election impossible and overturned the narrow election win by
the union.
Source: [342 NLRB No. 58] Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,
31-RC-8180
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