Analysis: U.S. college footballers tackle NLRB in bid to unionize

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Analysis: U.S. college footballers tackle NLRB in bid to unionize

Football players at Northwestern University have kicked off a daunting, but not necessarily impossible, drive to become the first U.S. college athletes to unionize, starting a legal process with the potential to redefine college sports. Wildcats quarterback Kain Colter has teamed up with Ramogi Huma, a former University of California-Los Angeles player turned activist, to form the College Athletes Players Association (CAPA), a first-of-its-kind labor union. CAPA has asked the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to schedule an election so Colter and his teammates can vote on whether they want union representation. In deciding whether an election is warranted, the NLRB must answer a question that has dogged college athletics for decades.

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