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Labor/Employment

Jul. 28, 2006

Union Must Pay Sutter Health $17.3 Million for Defamation

A union's claim of dirty laundry has landed them in hot water.

By Anne Marie Ruff
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      A union's claim of dirty laundry has landed them in hot water.
      UNITE HERE, a union representing industrial textile and hotel workers, has been ordered to pay $17.3 million in compensatory damages for defamation to Sutter Health and several of its affiliated nonprofit hospitals. Sutter Health v. UNITE HERE, No. S-CV-17938....

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