Pom Poms and Picket Lines: Might Professional Cheerleaders Unionize?

By Scott Andresen and Kevin McCoy   For the uninitiated, the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) can be a tough nut to crack. The federal labor relations law that we know today was created by the Wagner Act in 1935, and later amended by the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, which together form most of the private-sector unionization provisions that predominate today. Renowned labor unions such as The Teamsters, AFSME, the AFL-CIO, and The Laborers can all trace the beginning of their rise t