A small Catholic college in Riverdale, N.Y., last month got some news that sent shivers across religious higher education: part-time faculty have a right to form a union on campus.
But that wasn’t the worst of it. The National Labor Relations Board also isn’t convinced that the Catholic school is actually Catholic.
According to Elbert Tellem, the NLRB’s acting regional director, Manhattan College can’t prohibit adjunct faculty from unionizing because the school’s core purpose isn’t religious enough to trigger a labor law exemption.
OK, since when is the Federal Government in the business of telling an institution it “isn’t religious enough?”
#1, I actually LOL’d at that part.. partially for your reason and partially because in many cases it’s actually (sadly) TRUE!