The College Athletes Right to Organize bill was introduced into Congress late last month. “It asserts that any college athletes who are compensated by their school for their athletic ability — whether through a scholarship or other means — should have the right to organize and collectively bargain.”
The bill attempts to amend the NLRA to include college athletes as employees, thereby granting them the right to collectively bargain. The National Labor Relations Board last dismissed a petition to organize football players at Northwestern University in 2015.
