Sisters as union members: what do NLRB and courts say?

The NLRB and the appellate courts are more in conflict than in harmony over the inclusion of members of religious congregations in hospital collective bargaining units. The NLRB has bound several bases for exclusion; consequently, unless a hospital affiliated with a congregation is free of these conditions or is willing to assume the burdens of appellate litigation, members of a religious congregation in that hospital are unlikely to be included in a bargaining unit there.