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Jan. 1, 2007

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The labor board finds that hospital charge nurses are actually supervisors—a ruling that could exempt some 8 million employees from union protections. By Thomas Brom

By Thomas Brom
     
      Contested Terrain
      Decisions of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rarely make scintillating reading, but its ruling last fall parsing the meaning of "supervisor" could be used for anesthesia. Chairman Robert J. Battista referred repeatedly to Webster's dictionary to define three statutory terms?"assign," "responsibility to direct,...

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