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Are college athletes "employees" of their school?

by Henry Epp
Nov 7, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board holds a hearing to decide on the question. The answer could radically alter college athletics and its division of revenues.
University of Southern California Trojans players take the field before a college football game in 2021. USC is at the center of a case that could fundamentally change college athletics.
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Latest labor board ruling broadens who's considered an employee — for now

by Henry Epp
Jun 15, 2023
The standard for defining who's an employee and who's an independent contractor has gone back and forth in the courts for years.
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Federal agency that oversees unions will get first funding boost in a decade

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Dec 28, 2022
The National Labor Relations Board's resources have been stretched thin at a time when union organizing is surging.
The funding increase for the National Labor Relations Board comes at a time of high-profile labor organizing. Above, Starbucks workers on strike in Brooklyn, New York, in November.
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Federal labor board lobbies for additional funding, staffing resources as Congressional deadline looms

by Dylan Miettinen
Dec 15, 2022
The NLRB warns that no increase in funding could result in agency furloughs.
The National Labor Relations Board's funding has flat-lined since 2014. Now, labor advocates are hoping Congress appropriates more funds for the independent federal agency.
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NLRB rule could make it harder for millions of workers to organize

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Feb 26, 2020
It rolls back an Obama-era policy that held some corporations accountable for labor violations by subcontractors and franchisees.
The new NLRB rule could make it harder for employee's of McDonald's to organize.
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Government labor board proposes rolling back a rule that made union organizing easier

by Mitchell Hartman
Sep 14, 2018
Business organizations support the change, but labor activists say it would make low-wage contract workers more vulnerable.
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Regulatory “Ping-Pong” no game for businesses

by Mitchell Hartman
Dec 15, 2017
The Federal Communications Commission voted yesterday to get rid of Obama-era net neutrality rules that were just over two years old. It was a similar story over at the National Labor Relations Board, where some Obama-era rules that unions liked, and companies didn’t, have gone away. Politics aside, this kind of big switch, when a […]
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Labor ruling says employees can only have one boss

by Andy Uhler
Dec 15, 2017
The National Labor Relations Board has overturned an Obama-era ruling that had made it easier for workers at franchise businesses to form unions.
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Walmart moves to bar Black Friday protests

by Stacey Vanek Smith
Nov 20, 2012
Walmart files a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board to try and stop anti-Walmart protests from taking place on Black Friday.
Customers walk outside a Walmart store on November 17, 2012 in Norwalk, Connecticut.
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NLRB board vacancies could stall major labor decisions

by John Dimsdale
Dec 28, 2011
The National Labor Relations Board is about to lose the ability to enforce the nation's labor laws. On Dec. 31st, three of the five seats on the Board will become vacant. Without a quorum, the NLRB cannot decide cases.
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