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Northwestern University formally asked a U.S. labor agency on Wednesday to review a decision by one of its regional directors that the school's football players are effectively employees and can therefore vote on whether to unionize. The "unprecedented decision" could "alter the underlying premise on which collegiate varsity sports is based," the university's attorneys said in a brief filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Washington, D.C. A union election at the Chicago-area school in Evanston, Illinois, is scheduled for April 25. The five-member NLRB could decide to postpone that vote while it considers the university's appeal. "While we respect the NLRB process, we disagree strongly with the regional director's opinion," Northwestern spokesman Alan Cubbage said in a statement.
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