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NLRB Orders Review of Cases Involving Adjunct Unions at Religious Colleges

February 05, 2015 / Phil Lesch

The Chronicle of Higher Education
February 4th, 2015

The National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday ordered its regional officials to reconsider labor disputes involving proposed adjunct-faculty unions at three Roman Catholic colleges in light of its December decision clearing the way for such a union at Pacific Lutheran University.
All of Tuesday’s NLRB orders, involving Manhattan College, in Riverdale, N.Y., Saint Xavier University, in Chicago, and Seattle University, are in cases appealed to the national board after its regional officials rejected the colleges’ arguments that they were too religious to be under the board’s oversight. The orders direct regional officials to reopen the record in the cases, if necessary, in light of a new standard for evaluating religious objections to board oversight set forth in the Pacific Lutheran decision.

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