Legal Opinion
National Labor Relations Board v. GranCare, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 3, 1999No. 97-3431PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
The line that separates employees who can unionize from supervisors who can’t is not always clear. This is particularly true for nurses in the health care field, whose duties and lines of responsibility can sometimes be fuzzy. Our case today concerns licensed practical nurses (LPNs) at a nursing home in Wisconsin. Are they just employees of the home or are they supervisors as that term is defined by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), 29 U.S.C. § 152(11)?
GranCare, Inc. operates a 282-bed nursing home in Bayside, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. The home,…
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