college football players union

[DrLeftover]

26 March

A National Labor Relations Board hearing officer Wednesday found that Northwestern football players who receive scholarships are university employees and may unionize. The ruling might be groundbreaking, but we are a long way from breaking ground on a union hall adjacent to the Nicolet Football Center.

For one thing, hearing officers, also called administrative law judges, don't have the last word. They have the first word. Anyone who can identify the doink-doink of "Law & Order" has heard the legal cliché that a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich. What hearing officers do is akin to certifying a class in a class-action lawsuit. Now the game begins.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/10680161/players-union-victory-small-battle-collegiate-landscape