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N.L.R.B. Denies Request From Northwestern Football Players Seeking Union
The National Labor Relations Board on Monday dismissed a petition by
Northwestern football players who were seeking to unionize, effectively
denying their claim that they are university employees and should be allowed
to collectively bargain. In a unanimous decision that was a clear victory
for the college sports establishment, the five-member board declined to
exert its jurisdiction in the case and preserved, for now, one of the N.C.A.
A.’s core principles: that college athletes are primarily students.
The board did not directly rule on the central question in the case —
whether the players, who spend long hours on football and help generate
millions of dollars for Northwestern, are university employees. Instead, it
found that the novelty of the petition and its potentially wide-ranging
impacts on college sports would not have promoted “stability in labor
relations.”
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Citing competitive balance and the potential impact on N.C.A.A. rules, the
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