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The National Labor Relations Board is an independent agency of the United States federal government created in 1935 as part of the National Labor Relations Act. The Board consists of five presidentially-appointed members, who are charged with overseeing union elections and hearing complaints of unfair labor practices under the NLRA. less -

NLRB General Counsel Rescinds Controversial Memo Regarding Section 7 Rights Of University Faculty, Student Assistants, And...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/14/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: On December 1, 2017, the newly-confirmed General Counsel of the National Relations Board, Peter Robb, issued a memorandum to the NLRB regional offices listing legal issues that should be submitted for...more

Northwestern University Football Players Can’t Vote for Union Representation …but it’s not over until it’s over…

Stoel Rives LLP on 8/20/2015

Depending on your allegiance, “the Play” was one of either the most memorable or the most infamous moments in the history of college football. It happened in the final seconds of 1982’s annual “Big Game” between the Stanford...more

NLRB Punts on College Athlete Unions

Miller Canfield on 8/18/2015

On August 17, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board issued the long awaited decision in the Northwestern University football union case. 362 NLRB No. 167 (8/17/2015). In a rare display of unanimity, the five members of...more

College Athletes as Employees

Miller Canfield on 2/17/2015

Spring 2014 saw the first ever attempt to form a union among Division I college athletes, specifically the football team at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. The National Labor Relation Board’s (“NLRB” or “Board”)...more

The National Labor Relations Board 2014 Year in Review - Overview of the Board's Significant Actions

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 1/22/2015

Introduction - If the National Labor Relations Board seemed to be on the ropes in 2013, it certainly came out swinging in 2014. Last year, we reported that the Board faced a number of serious legal battles. Although...more

Is the NLRB’s Brown University Decision on Its Last Leg?

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on 5/13/2014

The National Labor Relations Board’s treatment of college and university students as “employees” covered by the National Labor Relations Act has been the subject of a tortured history. In the Fall of 2000, in a case...more

Will the Star Quarterback Be Sacked by the Taxman?

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 5/7/2014

On March 26, 2014, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decided scholarship football players at Northwestern University are employees because they “perform services for the benefit of the employer...more

Northwestern University's Football Team Is Scheduled To Vote On Union Representation

Laner Muchin, Ltd. on 5/1/2014

At the end of March, in a landmark decision, the Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Chicago held that Northwestern University’s scholarship football players are “employees” who can vote to be...more

NLRB to Decide Whether Northwestern’s Scholarship Football Players Are Students or Employees

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/25/2014

Late yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Washington, D.C. granted the request for review (i.e., an appeal) filed by Northwestern University in the much-watched case involving the status of Northwestern’s...more

What Exactly is the Long-Term Impact of the NLRB’s Decision? Part 3

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 4/25/2014

While the Northwestern decision applies to private universities, there is a good chance that this rule would affect public universities as well. States have individual statutes and related administrative bodies that govern...more

Student-Athletes: Are They Employees?

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 4/23/2014

Digging Deeper into the History of the NLRB’s Decision and Northwestern’s Appeal - This case started when the “College Athletes Players Association” (“CAPA”) was formed as a union created to represent the Northwestern...more

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