The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday said it granted Northwestern University's bid to review the agency's decision allowing Northwestern's football players to form a union.
According to a March 26 decision by an NLRB regional director, the university's grant-in-aid scholarship football players are viewed as employees under the National Labor Relations Act.
The player's vote on whether to unionize will take place Friday, but the ballots will be impounded until the board issues a decision affirming, modifying or reversing the regional director's decision, the agency said.
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