May 27, 2025
The First Circuit quashed a National Labor Relations Board decision ordering Northeastern University in Boston to negotiate with a union representing campus police department employees, determining the board strayed from precedent when finding sergeants are not supervisors under federal labor law.
February 10, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board official correctly allowed Northeastern University's sergeants and sergeant-detectives to unionize in 2023, and the board properly found last year that the university violated federal labor law by refusing to work with the union, board prosecutors argued before the First Circuit.
October 30, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board official shouldn't have allowed the sergeants and sergeant-detectives in Northeastern University's police department to unionize, the university told the First Circuit, claiming the workers are union-ineligible supervisors who must disaffiliate from the American Coalition of Public Safety.