BOSTON (AP) – Harborside Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest nursing home companies, dropped a federal complaint involving a labor organizer who was accused of threatening to use voodoo to influence a union vote.

Workers at Harborside’s Wakefield nursing home overwhelmingly voted last month to join the Service Employees International Union. But complaints were made against Marie Chery, a Haitian immigrant, who had been accused of using voodoo against co-workers who voted against unionizing.

Chery has said she is a Seventh Day Adventist and does not practice voodoo.

But the complaints prompted Harborside to file an objection to the union vote with the National Labor Relations Board.

The allegations against Chery sparked outrage among labor and Haitian groups, who protested on Wednesday outside Harborside’s Beacon Street headquarters, accusing the company of racial stereotyping.