Scott Cole

Scott Cole

September 22, 2021 | Daily Business Review

What's Next After Alston and NIL? College Football Players as Employees?

On Feb. 20, 2015, Peter Sung Ohr, regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), issued an unexpected decision, ruling that scholarship players on Northwestern University's football team were employees under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), and as such, had the right to form a union.

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