Union Employees Win Putting the Pride Back In Pride Care Ambulance

The Respondent, Pride Ambulance Company, d/b/a Pride
Care Ambulance, Care-A-Van, Kalamazoo, Michigan, its officers,
agents, successors, and assigns, shall
1. Cease and desist from
(a) Discharging employees represented by Local 7, International
Brotherhood of Teamsters, because they engaged in a
strike.
(b) Discharging nonunit employees who make common
cause with the striking employees.
(c) Threatening striking employees that if they do not return
to work they will be required to requalify for group health insurance.
(d) Requiring returning striking employees to requalify for
group health insurance.
(e) Bypassing the Union and dealing directly with striking
employees by requiring that they agree to the requalification
period for group health insurance prior to returning to work.
(f) Unilaterally, without notice to or bargaining with the Union,
changing the working conditions of striking unit employees
by requiring that they requalify for group health insurance. The
appropriate unit is:
All full-time and regular part-time drivers employed by the
Employer in its Care-A-Van Division, located in Kalamazoo,
Michigan, but excluding clerical employees, mechanics,
guards and supervisors as defined in the Act, and all other
employees.
(g) Rendering assistance to employees in an effort to decertify
the Union.
(h) Maintaining a rule prohibiting discussion among employees
of their wages.
(i) In any like or related manner interfering with, restraining,
or coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed
them by Section 7 of the Act.
2. Take the following affirmative action necessary to effectuate
the policies of the Act.
(a) Within 14 days from the date of this Order, offer the following
employees full reinstatement to their former jobs or, if
those jobs no longer exist, to substantially equivalent positions,
without prejudice to their seniority or any other rights or privileges
previously enjoyed:
Dean Chestnut Rodney Packard
Bradley Cosgrove Robert Schellenberg
Michele Cronk Ron Smeltzer
Michele Holderman Pat Smith
Ron Howard Cory Snyder
Ernie Kreitlow Rolland Wessell
(b) Make the following employees whole for any loss of
earnings and other benefits suffered as a result of the discrimination
against them, in the manner set forth in the remedy section
of the decision.

Patricia Brigance Rodney Packard
Dean Chestnut Robert Schellenberg
Bradley Cosgrove Ron Smeltzer
Michele Cronk Pat Smith