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Northwestern reacts to NLRB ruling that football team can't form union
Northwestern reacts to NLRB ruling that football team can't form union
Northwestern released a statement Monday in response to the National Labor Relations Board ruling that the football team cannot form a union. Read full statement below: Northwestern University is pleased by today?s decision issued by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which declined to assert jurisdiction and dismisses a petition filed by the College Athletes […]
Video: NU 'prepares student-athletes for life'
Video: NU 'prepares student-athletes for life'
Union talks have put Northwestern in the news the last few months. The school didn't expect it and it didn't want it. In an effort to show its student-athletes are just that – student-athletes – the school posted an Instagram video that features WR Tony Jones spinning a football and then a book while wearing […]
Northwestern players vote on union question
Northwestern players vote on union question
In a historic vote, Northwestern football players cast secret ballots Friday on whether to form the nation's first union for college athletes – a decision that could change the landscape of American amateur sports. "You got to give the people what they want!" one of the players shouted at reporters, who were kept away from […]
Northwestern union vote coming up on Friday
Northwestern union vote coming up on Friday
To unionize or not to unionize. That?s what Northwestern players will vote on Friday in what could be a watershed event in the annals of college sports. Many have speculated that the players will reject the union, based on some public comments by a few Wildcats and the fact Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald has spoken […]
College sports could step into future on Thursday
College sports could step into future on Thursday
On Thursday, the NCAA Board of Directors is expected to OK a new model of how its organization is run. Bottom line: major changes appear to be coming, as it appears the NCAA is trying to get a lot of this done to thwart multiple lawsuits vs. the Indianapolis institution and also to unplug the […]
Trevor Siemian says union push was rushed, wrong
Trevor Siemian says union push was rushed, wrong
(AP) Northwestern's Trevor Siemian says it was wrong for former quarterback Kain Colter and other players to explore unionization without first taking their concerns to their coach and administrators. A regional director for the National Labor Relations Board has cleared the way for Northwestern's scholarship football players to vote April 25 on whether to form […]
