NLRB

Elon U Adjuncts Vote to Affiliate With SEIU: College Officials Appeal Vote to NLRB

by Elizabeth Pattman Elon University has gone up the ladder, filing a request for review with the national office of the National Labor Relations Board after the regional director certified a vote to unionize adjunct faculty on Tuesday, Sept. 3. Back in November, the Service...

Did SEIU Break the Rules to Organize Non-Tenured Faculty at Elon U?

In a letter to faculty and staff, Elon Provost Steven House outlined the allegedly unethical actions SEIU organizers took since they first arrived on campus in January 2018 — all.

SEIU Ends Effort to Organize NTT Faculty at Vanderbilt

by Rachel Friedman In November 2018, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) withdrew its petition to unionize Non-Tenure Track (NTT) faculty members in the College of Arts and Science, marking.

At Duquesne U. Admins Take Adjunct Union Fight to Federal Appeals Court

Now, six years after the adjunct faculty voted to affiliate with the United Steelworkers, Duquesne University announced it will take its opposition to an adjunct faculty union on its campus to federal appeals court, calling a brand-new directive by the National Labor Relations Board that...

NLRB to Duquesne University: Recognize Your Adjunct Faculty Union

By Bill Schackner The United Steelworkers on Tuesday implored Duquesne University to stop resisting its now-organized adjunct faculty, buoyed by the latest National Labor Relations Board ruling that campus officials.

University of La Verne Adjuncts’ NLRB Complaints Dismissed for Lack of Merit

by Imani Tate A union’s failed attempt to organize University of La Verne adjunct professors has prompted increased dialogue and let university officials resume projects that had to be halted when.

Chicago College Gets Slapped With NLRB Unfair Labor Practice Complaints On Behalf of P-Timers

By Kari Lydersen At Columbia College Chicago, an arts- and media-oriented institution that has expanded greatly and helped revitalize the city’s South Loop, tensions have escalated between unionized part-time faculty and the administration this fall. The federal National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed two unfair labor...

PT Faculty & The Employee Free Choice Act

In 1975, there were about 275,000 part-time faculty employed in the United States. Over the past 30 years, the number of faculty off the tenure-track has mushroomed to over 800,000.

NLRB Restricts Email Use

According to an article published in The New York Times, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that employers have the right to keep workers from using company email to.

George Washington University Hopes to Reverse NLRB Ruling on Part-Time Professors’ Union

The National Labor Relations Board upheld the adjunct and part-time professors’ union in a unanimous decision Dec. 28. However, the University has now filed a petition to the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. for a review of the NLRB’s decision, prolonging again the recognition...