Is the NLRB Opening the Door (Again) to College Athlete Unionization?

By Harry Johnson When a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) regional director in December apparently took the position that a university, the Pac-12 Conference, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) could be considered joint employers of college athletes, it created a new path for the potential unionization of those college athletes. Seven years ago, a similar contention came before the NLRB in the 2015 Northwestern case (full disclosure, I was on the NLRB