MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin labor relations fee has dominated that the UW Health hospital system won’t be required to acknowledge a nurses union or interact in collective bargaining negotiations.

The Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission in its Friday ruling discovered that UW Health was exempted from collective bargaining legal guidelines as a result of the nurses are public workers below Act 10 — a 2011 legislation handed below former Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

Both UW Health and the nurse’s group described the ruling as an preliminary step within the nurse’s effort to regain union recognition, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. UW Nurses United mentioned in an announcement that it’ll enchantment the fee’s resolution in court docket, in addition to petition the National Labor Relations Board.

UW Health, in the meantime, will petition the state Supreme Court for an opinion on whether or not it’s legally required to acknowledge the worker union, or if it may well achieve this voluntarily. The hospital system is a part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and employs 21,000 individuals at seven hospitals and greater than 80 clinics.

The nurses had threatened to strike for 3 days in September, however Gov. Tony Evers had brokered an settlement for each organizations to petition the labor fee.