The NLRB and Religious Freedom

As noted in this story from the Chronicle of Higher Education and in this press release from the US House Committee on Education and the Workforce, I was one of the witnesses at a hearing earlier today on the topic of the NLRB and higher education. A good portion of the hearing was taken up with the issue of unionization of graduate students (one of my fellow witnesses was the graduate dean at Brown), but my testimony was about the NLRB's use of an intrusive (and constitutionally suspect) "substantial religious character" test for exemption from the NLRA for religiously-affiliated colleges and universities.