Bloomberg Law
April 23, 2019, 8:05 PM

Northeastern Faculty Drop Unionization Bid to Avoid NLRB Ruling

Hassan A. Kanu
Hassan A. Kanu
Legal Reporter
Andrew Wallender
Andrew Wallender
Reporter

A group of full-time, non-tenured professors at Northeastern University have dropped their petition to form a union in an effort to avoid a pro-employer ruling on faculty organizing from the Republican-controlled National Labor Relations Board.

The move by the group and organizers at the Service Employees International Union suggests that colleges and universities across the country that prefer to keep a union out of their workplace will have an easier time doing so under President Donald Trump’s NLRB.

The organizing professors withdrew a previous petition to form a unit of the SEIU after the college argued that most of the ...

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