Univ. of S. Cal. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Tatel, Circuit Judge:

*127Almost four decades ago, in N.L.R.B. v. Yeshiva University , 444 U.S. 672, 100 S.Ct. 856, 63 L.Ed.2d 115 (1980), the Supreme Court sustained the National Labor Relation Board's extension of the protections of the National Labor Relations Act to the faculty of private universities. The Court concluded, however, that the full-time faculty seeking recognition in that case qualified as managerial employees exempt from the NLRA's coverage because, as at other " 'mature' private universit[ies]" where "authority ... is divided between a central administration and one or more…