PROVIDENCE ALASKA MEDICAL CENTER v. N.L.R.B.

Nos. 96-70595, 96-70649.

121 F.3d 548 (1997)

PROVIDENCE ALASKA MEDICAL CENTER, Petitioner, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent, and Alaska Nurses Association and American Nurses Association, Respondents-Intervenors. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner, and Alaska Nurses Association and American Nurses Association, Petitioners-Intervenors, v. PROVIDENCE ALASKA MEDICAL CENTER, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 18, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen M. Rummage, Davis Wright Tremaine, Seattle, WA, for petitioner-respondent.

David A. Fleisher, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, DC, for National Labor Relations Board.

Matthew T. Halliday, Spokane, WA, for respondent-cross-petitioner-intervenor Alaska Nurses Association.

Barbara J. Sapin, American Nurses Association, Washington, DC, for respondent-cross-petitioner-intervenor American Nurses Association.

Before: WALLACE, JOHN T. NOONAN, Jr., and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


Opinion by Judge THOMPSON; Dissent by Judge NOONAN.

DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge:

The issue we decide in this case is whether registered nurses (RNs) who are employed by a medical center as "charge nurses" are "supervisors" within the meaning of Section 2(11) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), 29 U.S.C. § 152(11).

The Alaska Nurses Association (Alaska Nurses) petitioned the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) to become the...

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