Religion-based punishment means the college is exempt.

The College Fix reports.

Catholic college faculty can’t unionize in surprise ruling by National Labor Relations Board

The National Labor Relations Board is sending mixed signals to religious colleges as to whether they must allow faculty members to unionize.

A year after its Seattle office told Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) that its full-time contingent faculty can unionize because they perform no “religious function” and are not “managerial,” the same office has shot down union-minded faculty at Montana’s Carroll College.

The difference at the Catholic college? The role of faculty and the religion-based discipline that Carroll can impose on them, according to the decision and order written by Regional Director Ronald Hooks.