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What NLRB's Northwestern Ruling Means For Student-Athletes

Law360, New York (August 19, 2015, 3:38 PM EDT) -- It was nearly 18 months ago that the National Labor Relations Board regional director in Chicago declared that Northwestern University's scholarship football players were employees of the school under the National Labor Relations Act and could form a union to bargain collectively over the terms of their "employment" as college football players. This novel decision opened a new front in the debate over the NCAA and its economic system, which is criticized for bringing millions of dollars to schools, coaches and administrators on the backs of unpaid scholarship athletes. Unionization and collective bargaining had suddenly become a potential path for change in NCAA sports....

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