National Labor Relations Board v. Community Health Services, Inc.

McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.

Before us are consolidated applications brought by the National Labor Relations Board to enforce twin orders against CHS Community Health Systems, Inc. CHS argues that neither order should be enforced, because both stem from issues already litigated in a prior Board proceeding. Alternatively, CHS contends that the Board’s affirmative bargaining order is improper and unwarranted. We reject both claims and AFFIRM.

I. FACTS

In the summer of 1995, the employees of Mimbres Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home in Deming, New Mexico, voted to organize with the United…