Board Rules College Athletes Cannot Unionize, Would Throw Off Competition

CHICAGO (AP) – The National Labor Relations Board on Monday overturned a historic ruling that gave Northwestern University football players the go-head to form the nation’s first college athletes’ union, saying the prospect of union and non-union teams could throw off the competitive balance in college football.
The decision throws out a March 2014 ruling by a regional NLRB director in Chicago who said that college football players are effectively school employees and enti