Harborside Healthcare

Harborside Healthcare, Inc. ("Harborside") operates a 274-bed long-term care nursing home in Beachwood, Ohio. The Service Employees Union ("Union") petitioned the Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") seeking certification as the exclusive collective-bargaining representative of Harborside's service and maintenance employees at this facility, on August 5, 1998. One of Harborside's charge nurses, Robin Thomas, a licensed practical nurse ("LPN"), engaged in pro-union activity, as found by the hearing officer, even after being told that she held a supervisory position and must terminate her campaign efforts for the Union.