The Chronicle: Federal Court Criticizes Labor Board’s Handling of Case Involving Union Drive at Private University
A federal appeals court sent a case back to the National Labor Relations Board on Monday, saying the board had insufficiently explained its reasoning when it decided, in 2004, that professors at a private institution in Pittsburgh were not managers and therefore could form a union.
Inside Higher Ed: Professors: Managers or Employees?
Ever since 1980, professors at private colleges and have had a difficult time forming unions. That’s the year that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that faculty members at Yeshiva University couldn’t unionize because they had so much power that they were managerial employees.
A federal appeals court ruling Tuesday is the latest to consider attempts by faculty unions (or would-be unions) to win the legal right to collective bargaining. The ruling — involving the faculty union at Point Park University — didn’t offer a definitive opinion on whether faculty members at the Pittsburgh institution could unionize.
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