NLRB Northwestern Decision May Not Just Be For Athletes

Law360, New York ( April 3, 2014, 6:05 PM EDT) -- Last week, the regional director for Region 13 of the National Labor Relations Board found that Northwestern University's scholarship football players are employees under the National Labor Relations Act and, thus, have the right to unionize. As a result, the regional director ordered that an election be held to determine whether the university's scholarship football players wished to be represented by the College Athletes Players Association....

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