The old decision from March 2014, held that football players are effectively school employees and entitled to organize. However, the new decision did not directly address the question of whether players are employees.
Instead, the unanimous decision said the prospect of union and nonunion teams could throw off the competitive balance in college football by leading to different standards at different schools. Further, unionizing would not promote the "uniformity" and "stability" between workers and management, which it contents is the goal of U.S. labor relations law. Notably, the ruling applies to private schools, not public universities.