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In a decision issued on March 12, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected <\/a>an NLRB order that sought to require the University of Southern California to bargain with non-tenure track faculty at USC\u2019s Roski School of Art and Design. The NLRB had found that the non-tenure track faculty were not \u201cmanagers,\u201d and thus were eligible to collectively bargain, because they did not constitute a majority of any policy-making committee at the University.<\/p>\n

Drawing on prior Supreme Court precedent, the D.C. Circuit decided that this test was too narrow. Rather than focus on whether a subgroup of faculty can determine policy, the D.C. Circuit found that the proper inquiry for \u201cmanager\u201d status is whether the defined subgroup was included within a faculty body that the institution has delegated managerial authority to. This is a broader inquiry than the NLRB had applied to the Roski faculty. The D.C. Circuit\u2019s formulation looks at whether the faculty subgroup participates in a faculty body that the institution vests with managerial responsibilities, rather than whether that subgroup can dictate the policies developed by the faculty body. Accordingly, the D.C. Circuit sent the case back to the NLRB for further proceedings.<\/p>\n

Client Tip: As faculty organizing continues apace, institutions can take some solace in the Court\u2019s reasoning in this case and challenge the \u201cmanagerial\u201d makeup of a group seeking to collectively bargain.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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