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NLRB Reaffirms that Graduate Students Are Statutory Employees under NLRA

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On August 9, 2024, the NLRB denied Pardee RAND Graduate School’s (“RAND”) request for review of a regional director’s Decision and Direction of Election (DDE) finding that a petitioned-for unit of graduate policy researchers...more

Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP

Your Undergraduate Students Are Preparing For Unionization. Are You?

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In recent months and weeks, undergraduate student union organizing has picked up pace rapidly. On March 22, 2022, Wesleyan University voluntarily recognized a bargaining unit of undergraduate resident advisors following a...more

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NLRB Rescinds Proposed Rule Clarifying Status of Private University and College Students Working in Connection with their Studies

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On March 12, 2021, the National Labor Relations Board (Board) announced that it is withdrawing a rule proposed in September 2019 that would have excluded undergraduate and graduate students at private colleges and...more

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Students May Unionize After All: NLRB Withdraws Proposed Rule

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) recently announced it was changing course on whether students should be considered employees and therefore can unionize. This change of course returns to previous Board...more

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Democratic Bill Seeks To Classify Graduate Student Workers As Employees Under NLRA

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The “Respect Graduate Student Workers Act,” introduced by Representative Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), aims to classify graduate student workers as employees and ensure them “full labor protections” under the National Labor Relations...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

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NLRB Proposes End to Graduate Student Unions at Private Universities

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Since 2000, the National Labor Relations Board has taken the position that some graduate students who are paid for teaching and research functions by private colleges and universities qualify as employees eligible to organize...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

Fisher Phillips

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 Rule to Settle Once and For All: Student Teaching and Research Assistants Are Not “Employees”

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As anticipated, today the National Labor Relations Board published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) proposing a regulation which would establish that students at private colleges and universities who perform any...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

New NLRB Rule Would Stop Graduate Student Unions in Their Tracks

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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

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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

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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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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

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Are Graduate-Students Assistants Employees Under The NLRA? The Answer Of The Obama Board Will Not Be The Final Word

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Seyfarth Synopsis: A 2016 decision of the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) finding that the graduate students at Columbia University were employees under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) has been teed up for...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

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2016/2017 Labor & Employment Observer

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Activist NLRB Created More Problems For All Employers in 2016 - What Happens Under President Trump? During 2016, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) maintained its generally pro-union, anti-employer...more

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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

Fisher Phillips

The Unexpected Class Of 2016? Groundbreaking Labor Board Decision Creates New Class Of Supervisors

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Recently, in a high-profile decision involving Columbia University, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined that private college and university graduate and undergraduate student assistants – that is, students...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

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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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