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Article: Scripps Encinitas nurses walk away from union: association 'didn't have that much to offer us'.(Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas)
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- San Diego Business Journal
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- May 5, 2008
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Citing stronger bargaining power without union representation, registered nurses at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas have voted to end a four-year relationship with the California Nurses Association.
Jeanne Leonard, a registered nurse in the hospital's rehabilitation unit and a 15-year employee, says she voted to decertify the union because she no longer saw it as necessary.
"I think the union didn't have that much to offer us," she said.
Given the shortage of nurses today, Leonard said: "I don't need a union to speak for me. I can bargain on my own."
A secret ballot vote, which took place April 23 and 24, was held in response to a ...