Legal Question in Employment Law in California

I am a medical transcriptionist and over the past twenty years my profession has become hopelessly endangered by corporate greed, government ineptitude and public ignorance to the point that myself and the majority of my peers see the quality of patient care as greatly compromised and our own livelihood hurt (less pay, more hours, no time and a half for holidays, outsourcing to India, unreasonable professional demands, forced under threat of our jobs to cover up questionable issues of malpractice, etc.). I once inquired to a coworker and supervisor if we could form a union and was told that it was illegal for us to form a union because our work was required to maintain the national health care infrastructure. Is it true that our profession, because of its medical basis or otherwise, is not allowed to form a labor union? If we can form a union, how would a person go about doing this and are there any resources online with which I could further educate myself about this topic?

Thank you


Asked on 2/04/10, 4:38 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
George Shers Law Offices of Georges H. Shers

Why not contact the federal Department of Labor and then several of the labor unions? I would think the government can not ban your joining a labor union as opposed to not allowing you to go out on strike.

You might also want to contact, without giving your name, the hospital panel that investigates improper medical proceedures to see if they want information from non-physican sources.

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Answered on 2/10/10, 7:03 pm


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