Congressional Republicans launched a drive Monday to repeal a recent National Labor Relations Board rule updating procedures for union representation elections, setting up a likely veto showdown with President Barack Obama.

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Northwestern University’s football players voted Friday whether to form a labor union in an election with the potential to change college sports.

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Northwestern University appealed a decision by the National Labor Relations Board allowing the school’s football team to form the first players’ union in college sports.

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Labor and employment attorneys are taking special notice of a recent memorandum issued by the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board that requires regional officers to seek guidance from the board’s Division of Advice before proceeding on a broad array of matters.

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The National Labor Relations Board ruling allowing Northwestern University’s football team to become the first college sports union will eventually be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.

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Northwestern University football players were given the right to form college sports’ first labor union in a ruling that could seismically change the $16 billion business of top-level university athletics.

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Northwestern University’s football team has the right to form the first labor union in college sports, the National Labor Relations Board ruled.

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Northwestern University football players went before the National Labor Relations Board to seek recognition for the group they formed to combat what one quarterback likened to a “dictatorship” over college athletes.

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The National Labor Relations Board has abandoned plans to seek high court review of two appellate decisions striking down the agency’s notice posting rule.

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Management-side attorneys are ratcheting up criticism of the National Labor Relations Board and its acting general counsel in the wake of a memo that was sent to regional agency officials urging them seek out cases that can be used to overturn recent precedent restricting back pay for illegally discharged employees. Attorneys claim the memorandum, issued by Acting General Counsel Lafe E. Solomon, demonstrates pro-union activism never before displayed by anyone acting as the agency’s top prosecutor.

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One controversial use of social media in the workplace is when employers do so to gather information about potential employees.

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