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Unionism
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Employment & Labor
NLRB Decision Favoring Northwestern Football Players Is Only First Step Towards Union, Student Pay
Last week's National Labor Relations Board ruling giving Northwestern University football players the ability to unionize was a blindside hit to the NCAA, but student athletes have a long way…
Labor Relations Update
Hail Mary: NLRB Regional Director Holds College Football Players are Employees
On March 26, 2014, Peter Sung Ohr, the Chicago Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) ruled that members of the Northwestern University football team receiving athletic scholarships…
Labor & Employment Report
Thoughts on Unionizing College Athletes
Even with the hoopla surrounding March Madness there has been equally compelling news regarding college football despite the fact that that sport is not even in season. The National Labor…
Employment Law Watch
NLRB Regional Director Says College Athletes Can Unionize
Joel Barras wrote a new article on Forbes.com discussing the NLRB Regional Director for the Chicago Region's recent ruling that Northwestern University football players are "employees" of the University and…
Vorys on Labor
NLRB Regional Director Holds Northwestern University Football Players Are Employees, And Can Unionize
By Nelson Cary
By: Nelson D. Cary, Michael J. Shoenfelt Yesterday, the NLRB’s regional director for Region 13(Chicago), Peter Ohr, issued a 24-page ruling in which he held that college football players at…
Employer Labor Relations
College Football Unions: Throw the Flag for a False Start
By Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
By: Bradford L. Livingston, Esq. Although it’s still the first set of downs in the game between Northwestern University and CAPA (the College Athletes Players Association union seeking to represent…
Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
NLRB Rules That College Football Team Can Seek to Form a Union
By Lee Tankle
As Americans across the country anxiously stare at their National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Men's Basketball brackets, the Northwestern University Wildcats are dominating the headlines in both the…
The Right Coast
Northwestern Football Players Get Approval to Unionize – WSJ.com
CHICAGO In a decision with potentially broad ramifications for collegiate athletics, the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board ruled Wednesday that Northwestern University scholarship football players are employees…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Northwestern Univ. Football Players Can Form Union
The National Labor Relations Board has decided that college athletes can form a union. To reach that determination, the NLRB had to first find that football players are "employees" of…
Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
Northwestern Scholarship Football Players Found To Be Employees Eligible for Union Representation
By Gregg E. Clifton, Howard M. Bloom, Patrick L. Egan, Paul V Kelly
Peter Sung Ohr, the Regional Director for Region 13 of the National Labor Relations Board issued a Decision and Direction of Election pertaining to the effort of the Northwestern University…