College Athletes: Students or Employees?

By Gregg Clifton and Shawn Butte, of Jackson Lewis   In an unprecedented legal step, the College Athletes Players Association (CAPA) has filed a petition with the Chicago-based regional office of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Region 13, seeking to organize the 85 football players receiving athletic scholarships at Northwestern University for purposes of representing them in collective bargaining.   Backed by the United Steelworkers Union, CAPA filed union cards with the NL