Professors’ Union Bid at Private College Fails Under New Federal Standards

The National Labor Relations Board’s first application of new standards for determining whether private-college professors may unionize suggests that many such organizing efforts still face major hurdles.  Despite applying standards widely regarded as more union-friendly than those used by the board before, a regional NLRB official ruled on Tuesday that tenured and tenure-track faculty members at Carroll College, a Roman Catholic institution in Montana, are too involved in that institution’s management to be allowed to organize as employees.