WASHINGTON – A federal government decision on supervisory employees could hurt efforts by University of Wisconsin-Madison professors, graduate students and staff to join unions.
A number of labor experts agree that a recent National Labor Relations Board ruling barring union participation by workers with supervisory duties, such as registered nurses, could affect university employees as well.
Gary Mitchell, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2412, which organizes administrative workers, worries that the NLRB has limited which workers can unionize.