Labor lawyers are skeptical that a decision by a National Labor Relations Board official in Chicago giving football players at Northwestern University a green light to unionize would survive judicial scrutiny.
“It will be an uphill battle for the petitioner,” said Steven Bernstein, a partner at Fisher & Phillips who specializes in labor issues. The holding “flies in the face of decades of precedent. … The concept of the employment relationship seems to have gotten lost in translation.”
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