This article is a summary discussion of the main issues faced by faculty at private, often church-sponsored, universities who sought to be represented by a union in collective bargaining with their employers. The discussion begins by tracing the origins of the rule that faculty at private universities are managers and not employees under the aegis…

In its stunning and far-reaching decision in the "Pacific Lutheran University" case (12/16/14), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) opened the door to union organizing among faculty at thousands of private-sector institutions, both secular and religious. The question before the NLRB was whether a local of the Service Employees…

This article presents an interview with Wilma B. Liebman, the new chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In this interview, Liebman talks about labor law, academics, and reversing ossification.

With the maturation of the internet more and more colleges and universities are offering online courses. As these courses enter the mainstream, public policy issues are beginning to emerge. Many of these involve the tension between the "work for hire" doctrine and academic freedom that occurs when educational institutions offer these…

Describes faculty's efforts to unionize at Sage Colleges in Troy, New York, including legal hurdles (the Supreme Court's decision in National Labor Relations Board v. Yeshiva University), reasons cited by faculty for the union effort, and administrative reaction. (EV)

Previous faculty National Labor Relations Board status decisions are analyzed to discern the rationale behind the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to follow prior holdings of the Board. The Board can now either set a procedure for determining faculty status or declare faculty protected, forcing Congress to address the issue directly. (MSE)

By excluding all private college faculty from collective bargaining under the National Labor Relations Act, the Supreme Court has demonstrated a misunderstanding of the genuine need of faculty to participate in bargaining and should have shown more restraint before substituting its judgment for that of the NLRB. (MSE)

Viewed from the perspective of administrative law, labor law, or just higher education, the Yeshiva decision does not make sense. It would be appropriate in future litigation to compel the court to do what it refused to do here, that is to address the extent to which the industrial analogy applies to colleges and universities. (MSE)

By acknowledging a specific setting, as at Yeshiva University, where faculty are legally considered managerial, the court lays a foundation on which private colleges may attempt to build, by trying to fit the "mature" governing structure outlined in the court decision. Journal available from the School of Law, Washburn University,…

It is submitted that, in the court decision on Yeshiva University and collective bargaining, the court failed to provide the National Labor Relations Board with any clear guidelines for applying its managerial context test. The decision's consistency with the National Labor Relations Act's intent is questioned. (MSE)

Campus collective bargaining proceedings associated with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) versus Yeshiva University case are analyzed. The number of institutions exercising Yeshiva-like claims has risen to 49, and the vast majority of the claimants are institutions that have challenged the right of the faculty to organize and bargain…

The exclusion of faculty members as managerial employees may seriously disadvantage all professional employees, the very group the National Labor Relations Act was amended to protect. (Journal availability: Dennis & Company, 251 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14203.) (MSE)

This newsletter on collective bargaining in higher education and the professions devotes nearly all this issue to an analysis of a recent Supreme Court decision ruling that licensed nurse practitioners are supervisors who are therefore excluded from collective bargaining protection. The "National Labor Relations Board, Petitioner versus…

Amidst widely disparate predictions as to the effect the Yeshiva decision will have in higher education, traditional legal wisdom would suggest awaiting further NLRB and court decisions for guidance on Yeshiva's impact on different institutions, especially given the various existing and potential unionization arrangements. (MSE)

The meeting of some 300 college administrators, faculty unionists, arbitrators specializing in education, and members of government agencies dealing with collective bargaining is reported in the proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education. Topics and speakers…