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NLRB Rules College Football Players on Scholarship are Employees and Can Form Unions

March 26, 2014 by Jeffrey S. Sloan

Earlier today, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) Regional Office 13 issued a groundbreaking decision in Northwestern University v. College Athletes Players Association (Case No. 13-RC-121359) which could fundamentally alter the relationship of college football players to their schools and to the N.C.A.A. The NLRB’s Regional Office ruled that: (1) College football players on scholarships at… Read More