REPRESENTATION ISSUES; UNIT MODIFICATION – Unfair Practice and Unit Modification

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PERB determined that any lawful application of county’s local rules required county to place per diem registered nurses (RN) and nurse practitioners (NP) in same unit as regular RNs and NPs. (p. 10.) Placing just over 50 County per diem registered nurses and nurse practitioners in a newly formed unit all their own, rather than in an existing unit comprising over 500 County RNs and NPs who perform identical work at the same hospital, resulted in unnecessary fragmentation. (pp. 10-12.)