{"id":585,"date":"2015-12-01T17:35:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T02:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/?p=585"},"modified":"2015-12-01T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T02:35:32","slug":"college-athlete-labor-decision-a-government-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/2015\/12\/01\/college-athlete-labor-decision-a-government-document\/","title":{"rendered":"College athlete labor decision: a government document"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember reading about college athletes in the news earlier this semester?<\/p>\n<p>In August, news sources across the country reported on a decision about Northwestern University football players who petitioned to form a union and, essentially, to be recognized as employees. That decision came from the National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll find a record for\u00a0<a title=\"Decisions and orders of the National Labor Relations Board\" href=\"http:\/\/jlc-web.uaa.alaska.edu\/client\/en_US\/uaa\/search\/detailnonmodal\/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:2393080\/ada?qu=Decisions+and+orders+of+the+National+Labor+Relations+Board&amp;rt=false%7C%7C%7CTITLE%7C%7C%7CTitle\" target=\"_blank\">electronically-published NLRB decisions<\/a> in the Consortium Library catalog; that record provides links to the NLRB Cases &amp; Decisions website. As a participant of the\u00a0Federal Depository Library Program, the Consortium Library\u00a0provides access to government publications\u00a0such as NLRB decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Why might you want to follow that link\u00a0to view\u00a0this kind of government document for yourself? <a title=\"Case Number: 13-RC-121359\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/case\/13-RC-121359\" target=\"_blank\">This particular NLRB decision<\/a> is 19 pages long, and it is a detailed document that can\u2019t be fully represented by a 30-second news clip or a 300-word news article. There\u2019s no substitute for reading\u00a0the full text for yourself. Also, locating\u00a0the full text from its original\u00a0source can lead you to related sources\u00a0&#8212; in this case, the many other documents NLRB has pertaining to this issue. Following these kinds of breadcrumbs is key to doing thorough\u00a0research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember reading about college athletes in the news earlier this semester? In August, news sources across the country reported on a decision about Northwestern University football players who petitioned to form a union and, essentially, to be recognized as employees. That decision came from the National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB. You\u2019ll find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}