Methodist Hospital of Kentucky, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, Communication Workers of America, Afl-Cio, Intervenor

ENGEL, Circuit Judge.

The Board orders we review here are the product of a labor dispute which com menced on June 10, 1972, when employees of petitioner Methodist Hospital of Kentucky, Inc., went on strike to obtain recognition of the intervening union, Communication Workers of America, AFL-CIO. Prior to August 25, 1974, non-profit hospitals did not come within the jurisdiction of the NLRB since they were specifically excluded from the definition of “employer” under Section 2(2) of the National Labor Relations Act. The strike was still in effect when congressional amendments to the Act,…