ST. MARGARET MERCY HEALTHCARE CENTERS v. N.L.R.B.

Nos. 07-2752, 07-3110.

519 F.3d 373 (2008)

ST. MARGARET MERCY HEALTHCARE CENTERS, Petitioner/Cross-Respondent, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent/Cross-Petitioner.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 11, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey C. Kauffman (argued), Seyfarth Shaw, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner/Cross-Respondent.

Joseph A. Barker, Chicago, IL, Linda J. Dreeben, Usha Dheenan (argued), National Labor Relations Board, Office of the General Counsel, Washington, DC, for Respondent/Cross-Petitioner.

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and BAUER and POSNER, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The Labor Board found that St. Margaret, which owns and operates two hospitals in Indiana (but for the sake of simplicity we'll assume they're one), interfered with the right of the hospital nurses to organize and discriminated against one of the nurses, who was a union activist. The interference, the Board ruled, violated section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act, and the discrimination section 8(a)(3). 29 U.S.C. §§ 158...

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