RVMC Workers vote on joining a union

RVMC employees vote today on whether to unionize

Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA

Registered nurses at RVMC
are already members of the
Oregon Nurses Association,
but there are no other unions
at the hospital.

Daniel Burdis, an AFSCME spokesman in Grants Pass,
said RVMC workers approached AFSCME about forming
a union. AFSCME represents mostly government employees,
but the union also represents a number of health-care workers
at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital.
Some city of Medford employees are represented by AFSCME, too.

The current economic slump is prompting some workers to look
More seriously at unionizing, but making others fearful of trying
to organize, said Shauna Ballo, a spokeswoman for the Service
Employees International Union in Portland.
"People are very frightened of losing their job," Ballo said.
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