Voters approve cap on hospital execs' salary; hospital sues employees who put measure on ballot
Source: Mountain View Voice
El Camino Hospital has filed a lawsuit aimed at overturning Measure M -- the voter-approved initiative that caps top executives salaries to no more than twice that of the governor of California.
While the hospital's biggest union played a key role in gathering the necessary signatures for the initiative, the healthcare organization's lawyers are not challenging the El Camino chapter of the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers (SEIU-UHW). Instead, the complaint has identified two mid-level hospital employees as the defendants in the case, as they are the ones who signed the paperwork to get Measure M on the ballot.
The suit, which has six of the hospital's highest paid top officials as plaintiffs, names Kary Lynch and Laura Huston as defendants in the case. Lynch and Huston, co-sponsors of the initiative, are being sued as the official proponents of the measure, and "have a legally recognized interest in defending Measure M's validity."
All of this came as a surprise to Lynch, a psychiatric technician at the hospital. Although he has long been an outspoken supporter of his union, and while he worked hard to get Measure M in front of voters, he did not anticipate that he might be sued for his efforts.
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