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Judge Orders New Union Vote at Albany, N.Y., Disability Center.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2004

By Alan Wechsler, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 26--Fourteen months after employees at the Center for the Disabled rejected the trade union UNITE by 40 votes, another vote has been ordered.

Administrative Law Judge Margaret Kern ruled that the center committed nine violations of federal labor law during the organizing campaign for the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees.

The Albany-based center, which offers programs in health, training and therapy for 15,000 disabled people in nine counties, has 2,400 employees, including 1,058 who would be eligible for UNITE membership.

Kern said that during the campaign, which led up to a vote in November 2002, the center told...

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