An Analysis of the NLRB’s Recent Decision Affecting College Athletes and their Status as Employees

By Tyler O’Hara   Introduction   In this case, Petitioner College Athletes Players Association (“CAPA”) requested the Board to find that grant-in-aid scholarship football players at Northwestern University are employees pursuant to Section 2(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (the “Act” or “NLRA”) and to direct an election in a unit of said players. After the Regional Director agreed with the Petitioner on these issues, the Board granted Northwestern’s Request for R