NLRB Appears Poised To Overturn Brown University Ruling

Law360, New York ( March 26, 2015, 1:01 PM EDT) -- The National Labor Relations Board is poised to reconsider whether students can be classified as employees under the National Labor Relations Act. Currently before the NLRB is Northwestern University, a case in which the board will determine whether grant-in-aid receiving football players are employees under the NLRA. Recently, the NLRB released two unpublished decisions that boosted unionization efforts by teaching and research assistants at private universities. The decisions, issued on March 13, 2015, could pave the way for the NLRB to overturn a 2004 decision, where it rejected an effort by graduate teaching and research assistants to unionize at Brown University....

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