In a ruling that could revolutionize college sports, a
federal agency has given football players at Northwestern University the green
light to unionize.
Wednesday’s landmark ruling by a regional director of
National Labor Relations Board means the players are deemed employees under
federal law and so can create the nation’s first college athletes’ union.
Union lawyers argued the Big Ten school’s football players
are part of a commercial enterprise that generates hefty profits through their
labor.
The NCAA, Big Ten Conference and the private school
vehemently opposed the union drive. Northwestern argued that college athletes
are students and can’t be put in the same category as factory workers.
The ruling in Chicago by director Peter Ohr can be appealed
to the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Source: Time.com
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