Opinion ID: 528546
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: St. Luke's Affect on St. Francis II

Text: 10 At the outset, we find the Board's disparity of interests test as adopted in St. Francis II comports with our decision in St. Luke's. The Hospital errs in interpreting St. Luke's so rigidly. We are content that in St. Francis II the Board's formulation of its disparity of interests test took into account--as we mandated in St. Luke's--the admonition of Congress against the proliferation of bargaining units in the health care field. 271 N.L.R.B. at 953. Thus, when a bargaining unit satisfies the disparity of interests test, it necessarily complies with the congressional directive against unnecessary fragmentation of bargaining units. See Southwest Community Health Servs. v. NLRB, 726 F.2d 611, 613 (10th Cir.1984) (The [disparity of interests] standard thus ensures compliance with the congressional mandate to avoid undue proliferation of bargaining units in the health care industry.). 11