Oakwood Healthcare, Inc.

Twelve of Oakwood Heritage Hospital's 181 registered nurses served as charge nurses, overseeing patient-care units, assigning duties to other nurses, LPNs, and technicians, monitoring patients, and handling their own caseload, with a rotation letting other RNs temporarily serve as charge nurses. The question was whether these charge nurses, or other RNs performing similar functions, were 'supervisors' excluded from NLRA coverage under section 2(11).

Whether employees are supervisors with responsibility under section 2(11) of the National Labor Relations Act if they routinely direct and assign other staff members to specific duties using independent judgment.