The National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel said colleges and universities have a legal obligation to bargain with unions over releasing information about student-workers.
The National Labor Relations Act mandates that employers provide unions with information about workers in the bargaining unit. But when that bargaining unit involves students, whose personal records are protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, colleges may face situations where their obligations under the two laws seem to conflict, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said in a Tuesday memo.
The guidance comes amid a wave of organizing among undergraduate and ...
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