March 1, 2002
Twin Setbacks Hit Faculty-Union Drives at Private Colleges
Attempts to unionize professors at private colleges -- already made difficult by a two-decade-old U.S. Supreme Court decision -- suffered two legal blows in February.
In one case, Elizabeth Kinney, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago, ruled against professors at the University of St. Francis who had sought to form a union. Using the Supreme Court precedent established in a 1980 case involving Yeshiva University, Ms. Kinney found that the
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