Julia Burdelski at TribLive reports the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) Regional Office has ruled the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) must allow Nurses working at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital to hold a Union Election. The Nurses, who are looking to join the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), announced in May they wanted to Unionize, calling for better staff-to-patient ratios, higher pay and more transparency from UPMC. About 1,000 Nurses will be involved in the Union Election, according to the NLRB. Mariah Park, a 28-year-old Labor and Delivery Nurse at Magee, told TribLive: “As Nurses, we really think we could help UPMC Magee even better if we have a seat at the table. I think UPMC owes us the opportunity to at least have this vote and let every single Nurse at the hospital have a vote.”

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