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The National Labor Relations Board is an independent agency of the United States federal government created in 1935 as part of the National Labor Relations Act. The Board consists of five presidentially-appointed members, who are charged with overseeing union elections and hearing complaints of unfair labor practices under the NLRA. less -

The Fight Continues for Employee Status – Dartmouth Men's Basketball Players Are Employees Under the NLRA

FordHarrison on 2/13/2024

Summary: On February 5, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB or Board) Regional Director for Region 1 (Boston) announced that Dartmouth College men’s basketball players are employees under the National Labor...more

Will the New Administration Trump Columbia University?

Saul Ewing LLP on 2/14/2017

GOP Reacts Swiftly to NLRB General Counsel’s Memorandum Regarding the Status of Division I Scholarship Football Players at Private Universities - In a memorandum dated January 31, 2017, National Labor Relations Board...more

The NLRB Throws a Flag on NCAA Division I Football and Explains Some Rules to Colleges and Universities

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/6/2017

In an official memorandum entitled “General Counsel’s Report on the Statutory Rights of University Faculty and Students in the Unfair Labor Practice Context,” the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Richard...more

NLRB Ruling on Northwestern Football Players Highlights Need for Congressional Action on College Sports

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 9/23/2015

In August, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or "the Board") unanimously ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to decide whether college football players at Northwestern University are "employees" under the National Labor...more

Gimme A U-N-I-O-N!

Gray Reed on 5/1/2014

Willa Bepayed is a standout attacker and a Senior on State Tech’s volleyball team. Willa read about Kan Doit, the Southeastern quarterback who’s leading the unionization drive before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)....more

What Exactly is the Long-Term Impact of the NLRB’s Decision? Part 3

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 4/25/2014

While the Northwestern decision applies to private universities, there is a good chance that this rule would affect public universities as well. States have individual statutes and related administrative bodies that govern...more

NLRB Grants Request for Review of Northwestern University Decision

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on 4/25/2014

In a not surprising development, the National Labor Relations Board announced today that it has granted Northwestern University’s Request for Review of the Regional Director’s decision directing an election among the...more

NLRB Holds College Football Players Are Employees, Can Unionize

Ballard Spahr LLP on 3/27/2014

The Regional Director for Region 13 of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) held today that all grant-in-aid scholarship players for Northwestern University's football team are "employees" under the National Labor...more

NLRB Regional Director Finds College Football Players Qualify as Employees and Can Unionize

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on 3/27/2014

In a stunning and potential landmark decision, a Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board has found that football players receiving grant-in-aid scholarships from Northwestern University (the University) are...more

Labor Board Says College Athletes Are "Employees" Who Can Unionize

Cranfill Sumner LLP on 3/27/2014

Sometimes, the wrongheadedness of the National Labor Relations Board is just astounding. Today, a regional director of that agency ruled that Northwestern University athletes are actually employees of the school and should...more

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