Las Vegas hospital, union tussle over workers
AP/KVIA News, December 3, 2008
A hospital union official says Las Vegas-based Alta Vista Regional Hospital has laid off six union members, and says management is using excuses like cutbacks to let union members go in the past couple of weeks. Registered nurse Louie Rael says a union committee has been told that those who were terminated were being forced to make unreasonable changes—such as working hours that wouldn't fit their families' schedules.
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