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NLRB Holds Solicitation of Mail-Ballots Constitutes Objectionable Conduct

On June 9, 2021, in Professional Transportation Inc., the National Labor Relations Board held that a party’s offer to collect an employee’s mail ballot constitutes misconduct that may serve as the basis to set aside the...more

New NLRB Rule Would Stop Graduate Student Unions in Their Tracks

Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released a proposed rule that would remove graduate and undergraduate students who perform work for pay in conjunction with their academic studies from the definition of an...more

NLRB: Student Assistants Now Employees Entitled to Unionize

The National Labor Relations Board has ruled in a 3-1 decision that graduate students at private, nonprofit higher education institutions "who perform services at a university in connection with their studies are statutory...more

NLRB Decision Potentially Expands "Perfectly Clear" Successorship Rule

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision in Nexeo Solutions, LLC earlier this week, ruling that the buyer in an asset purchase of the seller’s business was a "perfectly clear" successor. As a result, the...more

Northwestern University Football Players Can’t Form Union, NLRB Says and Refuses to Determine if They Are “Employees”

Northwestern University football players cannot form a union, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) decided today. The NLRB based its ruling on its duty to maintain stability in labor relations and notably...more

NLRB Issues Significant Decision on Faculty Unionization

The National Labor Relations Board (Board) recently ruled that it would assert jurisdiction over Pacific Lutheran University's (PLU’s) full-time contingent faculty members. In the context of a union's attempt to organize...more

NLRB Holds College Football Players Are Employees, Can Unionize

The Regional Director for Region 13 of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) held today that all grant-in-aid scholarship players for Northwestern University's football team are "employees" under the National Labor...more

3/27/2014  /  Athletes , College Athletes , NLRB , Students , Unions

Student Athletes’ NLRB Petition Looms Large for Colleges and Universities

A group of Northwestern University football players recently filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) seeking to be represented by a labor union. Although this request is the first of its kind, it...more

2/7/2014  /  Athletes , Colleges , NLRB , Students , Unions , Universities
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