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Unionism
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Employer Labor Relations
NLRB GOES LONG: REGIONAL DIRECTOR FINDS NU FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIP ATHLETES ARE EMPLOYEES
By Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
By: Ron Kramer, Kristin Michaels, Mary Klimesh & Anne Harris Earlier today the Regional Director (“RD”) for Region 13 of the NLRB found that Northwestern University’s scholarship football players are employees…
HR Law Talk
NLRB Regional Director Finds that Scholarship Football Players at Northwestern are Employees, not “Primarily Students” and Orders Union Election
Readers of this blog will recall our post on January 30 of this year, found here, regarding the effort by certain Northwestern University football players to unionize scholarship players on the…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Bloomberg Lawyers Organizing into a Union?
Above The Law reports today that a group of employees, including lawyers, at Bloogberg Law are in the process of trying to organize a union. Does anyone know more about…
Adjunct Profs Blog
Lesley University Adjuncts Form Union
Adjunct professors at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have voted to form a union, becoming the second adjunct group to unionize. Tufts University adjuncts in Boston became the first local…
SimplyHR
NLRB Proposes Amendments to the Union Election Regulations
On February 5, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board announced proposed amendments to its regulations, which would make it easier for unions to organize employees. The proposed amendments would permit…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
City of San Antonio Appeals Arbitration Finding, Again
I frequently tell my clients or potential clients that if they want fairness at work, then they need to form a union. The case of Lt. Joseph Salvaggio of the…
Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
College Athletes: Students or Employees?
By Gregg E. Clifton, Jackson Lewis P.C.
In an unprecedented legal step, the College Athletes Players Association (CAPA) has filed a petition with the Chicago-based regional office of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Region 13, seeking…
Employer Law Report
NLRB Re-Embarks On Quest to Speed Up Union Elections
Yesterday, February 5, 2014, the NLRB officially announced the reissuance of its controversial proposed election rule changes that were first proposed in 2011 and promptly dubbed by employer groups as…
Employment Law Worldview
Déjà vu All Over Again – The National Labor Relations Board Re-Issues “Ambush Election” Rules
In June 2011, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) proposed an administrative rule that sought to dramatically change the processes and procedures by which labor unions obtain the…
Employer Labor Relations
May College Football Players Unionize?
By Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
By: Joshua M. Henderson, Esq. That is the question of the moment, it seems, as last week’s representation petition filed by Northwestern University football players–seeking to be represented by the…