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March 27, 2014 05:03 am GMT
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College Football Players Can Unionize, Landmark Labor Ruling Says
Scholarship football players at Northwestern University can unionize because they are, in fact, employees of the school. That was the landmark decision that came down from a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday, a ruling that could rock the very foundation of big-time college sports
Northwestern said it plans to appeal the ruling to the NLRB's national office. But the Wednesday decision by the body's Chicago regional director, Peter Sung Ohr, represents a pivotal moment in the rapidly escalating controversy over how college athletes should be compensated for the massive piles of revenue generated by football and men's basketball, in particular Read more...
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