College Resists Unionization On Religious Grounds; Hospitals Back It

The UAW is seeking to represent teachers at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The college, Presbyterian in its origin, is arguing to the National Labor Relations Board that allowing its faculty to unionize would force the school to put federal labor law above its religious mission. In January, 2005, in Carroll College, Inc. v. International Union UAW, the NLRB's Regional Director ruled against the College. The case was then appealed to the full NLRB. On Thursday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that a West Coast chain of Seventh Day Adventist hospitals has now intervened in the case by filing a brief with the NLRB in support of the college's religious freedom arguments.