Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb 1, 2011 / 01:02 am
About 6,500 employees with an Ohio-based Catholic health care group have rejected a unionization proposal.
The workers of Catholic Healthcare Partners cast votes on whether to be represented by the Service Employees International Union. The voting workers were non-management and included nurses, technical workers, maintenance staff and clerical workers from seven hospitals and eight nursing homes between Cincinnati and Springfield, Ohio.
At Community Health Partners in Springfield, 670 employees did vote to unionize.
Pete Gemmer, spokesman of Catholic Health Care Partners institution Mercy Hospital Fairfield, would not release specific results but told the Middletown Journal the vote was “pretty overwhelmingly against the union.”