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Duquesne appeals NLRB decision on union

Posted on June 28, 2012 by | Comments Off on Duquesne appeals NLRB decision on union

Tribune-Review: Duquesne appeals NLRB decision on union

Board decision to reject the university’s request that it be allowed to withdraw on religious grounds from an agreement allowing part-time faculty to form a union, officials announced today.

The United Steelworkers petitioned the labor board on May 14 to supervise a union election to represent about 130 part-time faculty.

The NLRB issued a ruling Monday after Duquesne sought to withdraw from the vote because, as a religious institution, it qualifies for an exemption from NLRB jurisdiction, said Bridget Fare, a university spokeswoman.

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WAKE UP, NLRB! CHICAGO GRAD STUDENT EMPLOYEES RALLY

Posted on December 13, 2011 by | Comments Off on WAKE UP, NLRB! CHICAGO GRAD STUDENT EMPLOYEES RALLY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WAKE UP, NLRB! CHICAGO GRAD STUDENT EMPLOYEES RALLY
TO WAKE THE NLRB FROM ITS COMA,
HELP IT RECOGNIZE THAT GRAD LABOR COUNTS!

Chicago, IL, December 13, 2011 — Today at noon, Chicago-area graduate students and their supporters will demonstrate outside the Chicago branch office of the National Labor Relations Board (209 S. LaSalle St.) and present a petition calling on the NLRB to wake from its coma of inaction and recognize private university graduate student teaching and research assistants as employees with a legal right to unionize and collectively bargain.

The rally, organized by Graduate Students United, the graduate employee union at the University of Chicago, and the national Grad Labor Counts! campaign, will feature a dramatic skit in which the NLRB is presented as a comatose hospital patient to reflect its record of inaction and danger of imminent demise. The Grad Labor Counts! campaign has been endorsed by the 1.4 million-strong American Federation of Teachers and the 70,000-member American Association of University Professors.

“We’re calling for for urgent medical attention to the ailing patient from President Obama and Congress, who have the power to restore the NLRB by appointing a new member in 2012,” explained Dasha Polzik, a member of Graduate Students United and an organizer of the Grad Labor Counts! campaign.

“We’re also calling on the NLRB to wake from its coma and issue a ruling on a case that has sat before it since April 2010 concerning the employee status of graduate students at private universities,” added Greg Goodman, another GSU member. Graduate student teaching and research assistants were first recognized as employees by a unanimous NLRB ruling in 2000, and then stripped of their employee status by a later Bush-era ruling in 2004.

Representatives from Grad Labor Counts! will deliver a petition with over 2,700 signatures from across the country calling on the NLRB to rule on the case and recognize graduate student teaching and research assistants at private universities as employees. Details on the Grad Labor Counts! campaign and petition are available at http://gradlaborcounts.org.

Graduate Students United (AFT-AAUP) at the University of Chicago
http://uchicagogsu.org
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NLRB Proposes Speeding Up Unionization Votes at Private Colleges

Posted on June 21, 2011 by | Comments Off on NLRB Proposes Speeding Up Unionization Votes at Private Colleges

The Chronicle: NLRB Proposes Speeding Up Unionization Votes at Private Colleges

Employees of private colleges would find it easier to vote on forming unions under rules changes proposed by the National Labor Relations Board and scheduled for publication in Wednesday’s Federal Register. Among other changes, the proposals would allow for the electronic filing of election petitions, establish standardized time frames for the resolution or litigation of election-related disputes, defer litigation over most voter-eligibility issues until after elections, and consolidate all election-related appeals to the board into a single post-election appeals process, according to an NLRB news release. The proposed revisions are expected to meet opposition from many private-sector employers that fall under the board’s purview and have complained that speeding up elections would leave them too little time to mount effective anti-unionization campaigns and would otherwise stack the deck against them.

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Labor Board Rejects Religious Exemption for Saint Xavier U. and Says Adjuncts Can Unionize

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The Chronicle: Labor Board Rejects Religious Exemption for Saint Xavier U. and Says Adjuncts Can Unionize

A regional official of the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Saint Xavier University, a Roman Catholic institution in Illinois, is not sufficiently religious to fall outside that agency’s jurisdiction, and has cleared the way for the institution’s roughly 240 adjunct faculty members to hold a unionization vote.

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Labor Board Gives NYU Graduate Students Another Shot at Union Vote

Posted on October 28, 2010 by | Comments Off on Labor Board Gives NYU Graduate Students Another Shot at Union Vote

The Chronicle: Labor Board Gives NYU Graduate Students Another Shot at Union Vote

The National Labor Relations Board this week reversed a regional director’s decision that had stymied efforts by graduate teaching and research assistants at New York University to vote on union representation.

Monday’s 2-to-1 decision does not give the graduate assistants the green light to engage in collective bargaining, but it does say that they deserve a full hearing on their request for a union vote. The regional director had rejected that request in June without a hearing, citing a 2004 decision by the national board that halted unionization of teaching assistants at private colleges on the grounds that they were students, not workers.

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Faculty-Union Allies, Hopeful About Obama’s Labor Board, Hear From Its Leader

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The Chronicle: Faculty-Union Allies, Hopeful About Obama’s Labor Board, Hear From Its Leader

It’s only a matter of time before the National Labor Relations Board is faced with a challenge to a 2004 ruling that says graduate students at private institutions aren’t employees and therefore don’t have bargaining rights, its leader told attendees at a labor conference here on Monday.

“This is not an issue that we’ll bring up, but I have heard there are cases out there in the works,” said Wilma B. Liebman, the opening speaker at the conference, held at the City University of New York’s Baruch College.

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Loss for Private College Union

Posted on March 16, 2009 by | Comments Off on Loss for Private College Union

Inside Higher Ed: Loss for Private College Union
March 16, 2009

Union organizing of professors at private colleges has largely been squelched since 1980, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in NLRB v. Yeshiva University that faculty members at private institutions should be considered managerial employees ineligible for collective bargaining.

A rare breakthrough for such union drives came in 2005, when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that faculty members at Carroll University had the right to unionize. But on Friday, in a ruling that focused primarily on whether Carroll was entitled to be exempt from unionization because of its religious ties, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed the NLRB ruling, effectively quashing the union drive.

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Carroll U. Does Not Have to Bargain With Faculty Union, Appellate Court Rules

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The Chronicle News Blog: Carroll U. Does Not Have to Bargain With Faculty Union, Appellate Court Rules

Carroll University, a private Presbyterian institution in Wisconsin, will not have to bargain with its faculty union because it qualifies for an exemption from the National Labor Relations Board’s jurisdiction on religious grounds, a federal appellate court ruled today.

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An NLRB Victory for Grad Employees

Posted on February 2, 2009 by | Comments Off on An NLRB Victory for Grad Employees

The Chronicle: An NLRB Victory for Grad Employees

cross-posted from howtheuniversityworks.com

Last week’s appointment of Wilma Liebman to chair the NLRB is extremely welcome news to graduate employees and other academic workers.

The author of a scathing dissent to the Bush mob’s truculent Brown decision, Liebman adds serious credibility to hopeful interpretations of the Cabinet-level nomination of Hilda Solis.

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