National Labor Relations Board regional director Peter Ohr needs to look up the definition of an employee.

There are plenty of things we do to qualify as "employees," e.g., washing windows, leading multinational corporations, etc., in exchange for compensation, but playing college football on a scholarship at a private college just isn't one of them.

Ohr is the NLRB man who this week issued a 24-page decision that paves the way for Northwestern football players to form a union.

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