Union organizing Northwestern football team says other schools may be in play

Published January 08, 2015

An organizer with the United Steelworkers says players from other universities have expressed interest in forming unions in the wake of the landmark decision last week involving the Northwestern football team.

Tim Waters of the steelworkers would not disclose the players or their universities. But he says they reached out following the decision last week by a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board declaring Northwestern's players are university employees who have the right to form a union.

A member of Wisconsin's Final Four basketball team says participated in weekly conference calls in recent months with the union and Ramogi Huma, head of the National College Players Association. The NCPA and the steelworkers' union are working together on the union push.

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