BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Grambling State’s 2013 football team perhaps qualified to form a union more than any other college in the country.Grambling State’s current and recent former players will likely be watching the progress of what may have been a landmark decision by a regional arm of the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago two weeks ago that ruled Northwestern University football players can be treated as employees and unionize. The players pitched their case to the main NLRB in Washington D.C. last week, while Northwestern University itself appeals the decision.
Last season during the week leading up to their Oct. 19 game at Jackson State, Grambling State’s football players, in effect, formed their own ersatz union by boycotting two practices and walking out of a volatile meeting with Grambling State President Frank Pogue and other top administrators.
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