Northwestern University Files Request for Review of NLRB Decision That Football Players are “Employees”
As expected, Northwestern University (the “University”) has filed its Request for Review of NLRB Regional Director Peter Sung Ohr’s controversial March 26 decision that scholarship football players at the University are “employees” entitled to union representation. The Regional Director’s decision came in response to the football players”™ January 2014 filing of a “Certification of Representation Petition,” or “RC Petition,” premised on the seemingly novel legal theory that Division I scholarship football players were employees of the University despite their
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