Vanderbilt University Sues NLRB Over Student Union Election (1)

Vanderbilt University says the National Labor Relations Board is demanding information in a graduate student union election dispute that the school can’t provide because it would violate a federal privacy law.

The NLRB considered the college’s redacted response to its subpoena insufficient to comply with a legal requirement to provide information about the proposed election unit, and blocked Vanderbilt from presenting evidence as a result, according to the school’s complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.

“But an educational institution like Vanderbilt cannot provide that information about its students without the students’ written ...