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

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Analysis: U.S. college football players 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.

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