The Service Employees Union International (SEIU) has led the way over the past few years in organizing adjunct university professors. Though many other unions have followed in its footsteps, the SEIU has aggressively organized adjunct, part-time, non-tenured, and contingent university faculty members. In response, universities have argued that professors are managerial employees are excluded from…

Supervisors are excluded from coverage of the National Labor Relations Act under the Section 2 definition of “employee.” Section 14(a) also exempts employers from the duty to consider supervisors as employees under any law relating to collective bargaining. Notably, the Board has overruled a rigid rule that once excluded professionals from supervisory status if they…