A federal judge earlier this month ordered Centura Health to stop its pattern of withholding increases in pay and benefits for the group of nurses who formed a labor union at its hospital in Longmont.
The National Labor Relations Board accused Centura, now known as CommonSpirit, of violating federal law and interfering with workers' right to organize. On at least four occasions, Centura awarded systemwide pay increases and instituted various employee benefit programs but explicitly excluded the nurses at Longmont United Hospital who narrowly voted in favor of unionizing in 2021.
In a Nov. 16 order, U.S. District Court Judge Nina Y. Wang declined to require Centura to provide the Longmont nurses with the same compensation the company had delivered to its other employees, believing she did not have the authority to do so. However, she told Centura it cannot continue to bar the Longmont workers from receiving future, company-wide pay raises by using the bargaining process as an excuse.
"The evidence," Wang wrote, "supports the Board’s legal position that, at least with respect to the 'across-the-board' increases, Respondent engaged in discriminatory conduct."
She directed Centura to email her order to all employees by Nov. 30 and to post a copy at Longmont United Hospital. Attorneys for Centura declined to say whether their client had yet complied.
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