University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 23, 1990
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Nurses critical of using funds to hire union-busting company
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Nurses supporting a union at the University of Kansas Medical Center are critical of management hiring a consulting firm that some say specializes in thwarting hospital union drives.
The KU Nurses Association questions university official's use of endowment funds to pay Management Associates Inc. of Independence, Mo.
Personnel officials confirmed that they paid the firm $18,000 from the endowment fund for two weeks of work earlier this year.
Nurses will vote whether they want a union in less than two weeks. They have been organizing since last summer.
Richard Mann, KU's director of information resources, said the firm
was hired to assess employee conditions and advise management.
He said that he wasn't sure if KU would use the firm again before the election but that the hospital had asked that, as much as $12,000 be made available in case they called the consulting firm back.
The AFL-CIO cuts the firm as a union-busting company, but the consulting firm's president said less time was given to clients were facing organizing drives.
The nurses began organizing because of frustration about poor communication with administrators and high turnover and low pay, they say.
Since then, administrators have taken steps to solve the nursing shortage by bringing nurses from elsewhere.
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