In a decision highlighting the importance of bargaining in good faith, the National Labor Relations Board recently held that a California Hospital must reimburse the union’s negotiating costs as a remedy for the hospital’s post-election misconduct.  NLRB Chairman Mark Gaston Pearce and Members Kent Y. Hirozawa and Harry I. Johnson adopted and expanded the Administrative Law Judge’s (ALJ) decision holding that Hospital of Barstow, Inc. violated the National Labor Relations Act by making unilateral changes to nurse training requirements and by setting preconditions to bargaining. Continue reading this entry at Littler's Healthcare Employment Counsel.