Dive Brief:

• The National Labor Relations Board is asking for interested parties to file briefs in the case of Northwestern University football players seeking to organize a union. 
• The regional NLRB had approved unions for grant-in-aid scholarship football players, and a vote was held by those players on April 24. But the ballots remain untallied while Northwestern University’s appeal to the NLRB's national office is heard.
• The briefs have a 50-page limit and a June 26 deadline. Among the potential questions raised by the case, according to the NLRB invitation: What test should be used to determine if scholarship players are employees?

Dive Insight:

Another potential issue, according to the invitation, is whether the NLRB 2004 decision in a Brown University case about graduate student assistants should apply to the Northwestern case. In the Brown decision, the board ruled that graduate student assistants at private colleges were prohibited from unionizing.