By: Christopher W. Kelleher, Esq., Mary Kay Klimesh, Esq. & Jeffrey A. Berman, Esq.
Seyfarth Synopsis: The National Labor Relations Board issued three important decisions this week that will significantly impact private colleges and universities.
Student Assistants Eligible to Unionize
By a vote of 3 to 1, the Board held that college and…
By: Christopher W. Kelleher, Esq.
Seyfarth Synopsis: The NLRB ruled that students who work as teaching assistants at colleges and universities are “employees” under the NLRA and are thus permitted to engage in collective bargaining.
On August 23, 2016, the National Labor Relations Board issued a 3-1 decision in Columbia University, Case 02-RC-143012…
By: Bradford L. Livingston, Esq.
Earlier today and as expected, the five-member NLRB announced that it had granted Northwestern University’s request to review NLRB Regional Director Peter Ohr’s decision that Northwestern’s scholarship football players are “employees” within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act. After the players vote in a secret ballot election…
By: Anne D. Harris. Esq.
We recently blogged here about a group of Northwestern University football players who filed a petition for union representation.
On February 12, 2014, the Board held a hearing on the football players’ petition. Represented by the College Athletes Players Association (“CAPA”), the football players and Northwestern counsel each provided…
By: Abigail Cahak
On December 11, 2013, graduate student assistants of New York University and the Polytechnic Institute of NYU became the only such unionized student assistants of a private university when they voted in favor of representation by two United Auto Worker locals.
The Long Road to Certification
The UAW’s efforts to represent NYU’s…
The National Labor Relations Board (“the Board”) granted review today in a 3-1 vote of two cases – New York University, 356 NLRB No. 7 (2010) and Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Case 29-RC-12054 – which ask whether graduate student assistants are “employees” under Section 2(3) of the…
