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Unionism
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Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
NLRB’s Decision Roadblocks Union Effort – What’s Next for Student-Athletes?
After holding the potential “employee” status of Northwestern University’s grant-in-aid scholarship football players in abeyance for 16 months, the National Labor Relations Board’s decision not to assert jurisdiction left the…
World of Employment
Northwestern University Football Players Can’t Vote for Union Representation …but it’s not over until it’s over…
Depending on your allegiance, “the Play” was one of either the most memorable or the most infamous moments in the history of college football. It happened in the final seconds…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Blog Headlines, Robin Williams’ Estate, Accommodating Religion
As mentioned yesterday. the big news of the week is the NLRB deciding not to step in and rule on whether or not Northwestern football players can unionize. But while…
Employment & Labor
NLRB passes on jurisdiction for collegiate athlete unionization – now what?
In a surprising twist, the NLRB has unanimously declined jurisdiction over the Northwestern University football players seeking unionization. But was this a one-yard fumble or an opening for down the…
Vorys on Labor
Northwestern Football Players Lose Effort to Unionize: NLRB Declines to Exercise Jurisdiction
By Nelson Cary, George Stevens
Earlier today, the long-running saga of whether NCAA Division I football players are employees under the NLRA came to an end — at least temporarily. The NLRB unanimously declined to…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: NLRB’s Northwestern Decision, Shooting Drones, DirecTV Ads
In some very big news, the NLRB halted Northwestern football players' efforts to unionize. We have multiple points on the subject today. Over on LXBN, Zosha writes on the subject of…
HR Law Talk
Northwestern Football Players’ Unionization Drive Halted
In a ruling on August 17, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decided that it should not exercise jurisdiction over the unionization attempts by Northwestern football players. The NLRB…
Law and the Workplace
NLRB Prevents Northwestern Football Players from Unionizing; Refuses to Play the Game as to Whether College Athletes are Considered Employees
By Ian Plummer, Susan D. Friedfel
On August 17, 2015, nearly seventeen months after a National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) Regional Director ruled that Northwestern grant-in-aid scholarship football players were considered employees under the National Labor…
Employment & Labor
The Perfect Storm Brewing for Digital Editorial Unions
There’s an old saying that “once is chance, twice is coincidence, and the third time is a pattern.” Now that Vice is starting negotiations with the Writers Guild to represent…
Management Memo
Vice Editorial Staff to be Represented by Writers Guild – Unions Continue New Media Push
As we have been reporting, the Writers Guild of America East has been actively pursuing writers in the new media arena. On Friday August 7th, the Guild announced that Vice…