February 27, 2004

Black College Wins a Round in Its Effort to Block Faculty Unionization

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a histori-cally black college in Tennessee that is fighting a faculty-unionization effort. But the opinion, issued last week, does not kill the union drive at LeMoyne-Owen College.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that the National Labor Relations Board had failed to adequately explain why it had not followed the precedents cited by the college. The court sent the case back to the

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