Labor/Employment
Apr. 10, 2014
Northwestern ruling could reshape the NCAA
Northwestern has until Wednesday to appeal the decision and the players are scheduled to vote on union representation April 25. By Ron Holland and Ellen Bronchetti
Over the last few decades, the National Labor Relations Board has flip-flopped on union representation at educational institutions. During the 1970s, it issued several rulings prohibiting graduate students from unionizing. In 2000, a Clinton administration NLRB allowed graduate assistants at NYU to unionize. And in 2004, a Bush-era NLRB reversed itself and prohibited Brown University graduate students from unionizing.
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