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crln-23968	Schmidt, C. James	Collective Bargaining and Academic Librarians: A Review of the Decisions of the NLRB	2020-02-12	3	.pdf	application/pdf	2890	128	68	W hat follows is a review of decisions of the National Labor Relations Board (N L R B ). T h e criteria applied by the board to head librarians seem to be three: ( a ) degree o f real authority and autonomy; ( b ) whether other employees in the sam e bargaining unit are subordinates; ( c ) the fifty percent rule.8 In the New York University case the board said … we reject the Em ployer’s contention that all professional librarians possess su­ pervisory authority over nonunit employ­ ees to a degree requiring their exclusion.9 [emphasis added] … we shall exclude as supervisors only those professional librarians who supervise other employees in the unit or who spend more than fifty percent of their time super­ vising nonunit employees.10 T h e most celebrated N L R B case on the ques­ tion of the supervisor in academic libraries in­ volved an allegation of unfair labor practice at the University of Chicago.11 Inclusion of librari­ ans in a faculty unit was not at issue in this case, there being no faculty unit at the Univer­ sity of Chicago in 1972.	cache/crln-23968.pdf	txt/crln-23968.txt