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NLRB Withdraws Proposed Rule Intended to Block Student Union Organizing

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March 18, 2021 On March 12, 2021, the National Labor Relations Board withdrew its proposed rulemaking that would have prevented college student workers from organizing unions.  As a result, the Board’s 2016 decision granting...more

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NLRB Paves the Way for Graduate Student Unions

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NLRB withdraws proposed rule intended to benefit private colleges and universities: The March 15, 2021 Federal Register contained an unwelcome surprise for private colleges and universities. The National Labor Relations Board...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

NLRB Withdraws Proposed Rule Blocking Graduate Student Unionization

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) has withdrawn a proposed rule that would have exempted graduate students from the definition of “employees” under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Under the rule...more

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A Wild Time On Campus: Higher Ed Whipsawed By September’s Employment Law Developments

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Colleges and universities have witnessed major developments in September with student teaching and research assistants at private schools losing the right to unionize but student-athletes in California gaining the right to be...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

NLRB Proposes Rule that Would Deny Undergraduate and Graduate Students the Right to Unionize

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has proposed a new rule which would exclude undergraduate and graduate students from coverage under Section 2(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Specifically, students who...more

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Proposed Rule Would Preclude Undergraduate and Graduate Students from Union Organizing

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On September 23, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that addresses the long-standing issue of whether undergraduate and graduate students who perform services for...more

Hogan Lovells

Ruling Out Graduate Student Unions

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On September 20, 2019 the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) proposed a rule which, if approved, would exclude graduate and undergraduate student workers, who perform services in connection with their studies,...more

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What You Need to Know About the NLRB’s Proposed Rule Blocking Student Organizing

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The seemingly never-ending debate over private sector college- and university-student employment status continues. On Friday, September 20, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced its intent to propose a rule...more

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Proposed Rule Would Preclude Undergraduate and Graduate Students from Union Organizing

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On September 23, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that addresses the long-standing issue of whether undergraduate and graduate students who perform services for...more

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NLRB Proposes Rule Excluding Private College and University Student Workers from NLRA Coverage

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Upending recent precedent, the National Labor Relations Board, yesterday, proposed a rule that, if adopted, will exempt from the NLRB’s jurisdiction undergraduate and graduate students who perform services in connection with...more

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Grad Students Cannot Unionize Under Proposed NLRB Rule

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The National Labor Relations Board took the latest step in the long-simmering debate over whether college teaching and research assistants could unionize when it released a proposed rule on Friday that would once again block...more

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NLRB Issues Proposed Rule to Clarify Status of Private University and College Students Working in Connection with Their Studies

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On September 20, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (Board) issued a proposed rule that would exclude from the National Labor Relations Act (Act) undergraduate and graduate students at private colleges and universities...more

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NLRB Proposes Regulation to Prevent Students From Organizing

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As we discussed in an earlier client alert, the National Labor Relations Board announced in May that it would be issuing proposed rules that would establish a “standard for determining whether students who perform services at...more

Franczek P.C.

NLRB To Propose Rules on Graduate Student Employment Status

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We previously reported, in 2016, that the Obama-era National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a decision in Columbia University that paved the way for graduate students to unionize at private higher education...more

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Labor Board To Revisit Right Of Graduate Students To Unionize

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has announced that it will propose rules on the standard for determining whether students who perform services at private colleges or universities in connection with their studies are...more

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A New Push to Organize Graduate Students at Private Colleges and Universities? Four Major Unions Announce a Coalition on Higher Ed...

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On March 14, 2018, leaders from the Service Employees International Union, the United Auto Workers, the American Federation of Teachers, and UNITE HERE announced a new coalition to organize graduate students at private...more

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Student-Employee Unions: Should Universities Expect a Double U-Turn?

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Until recently, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) long held that private university student-employees were not considered “employees” under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) because the relationship with their...more

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Grad-Student Unions One Year After Columbia University: More To Come Or A Thing Of The Past?

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In August 2016, the National Labor Relations Board reversed longstanding precedent and ruled that students “who have a common-law employment relationship with their university are statutory employees under the [National Labor...more

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Senate HELP Committee Questions NLRB Nominees on Higher Education Issues

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During the Obama Administration the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) opened wider the gates of private colleges and universities to organized labor. In 2014 the Board made it easier for faculty to...more

Littler

NLRB Issues Numerous Decisions Against Employers as Hirozawa's Term Expires

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In the midst of a heated presidential election cycle, employers are following recent decisions of the National Labor Relations Board closely. Before losing its three-member Democratic majority at the expiration of Board...more

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NLRB Raises Price of College Tuition

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In yet another reversal of precedent, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that students who perform work for a university for which they are compensated can form and join labor unions under the National Labor...more

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National Labor Relations Board Grants Student Assistants the Right to Unionize at Private Colleges and Universities

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In a setback to private colleges and universities, the National Labor Relations Board ruled on August 23, 2016 that student assistants have unionization and collective bargaining rights under the National Labor Relations Act....more

Holland & Knight LLP

NLRB: Graduate, Undergraduate Teaching Assistants Are Employees Under NLRA

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) on Aug. 23, 2016, issued a 3-to-1 decision concluding that graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants at Columbia University are employees under the National Labor...more

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NLRB Permits Graduate Students to Unionize at Private Institutions

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On August 23, 2016, in a 3 to 1 decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a ruling that renders graduate student assistants "employees" for the purposes of unionization, overturning a standard that previously...more

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Back to School: NLRB Takes Aim at Colleges and Universities

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The National Labor Relations Board issued three important decisions this week that will significantly impact private colleges and universities....more

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