The movement to make college athletes employees of their universities just took another large step. RossDellenger on a major NLRB move announced today
In an interview last January, ESPN lead football analyst Kirk Herbstreit made a proclamation: You might as well make college athletes employees.
The National College Players Association announced the move 10 months after filing the charge with the NLRB office. The NCPA’s goal is to affirm employee status for Division I basketball players, men and women, as well as FBS football players. The announcement makes publicA ruling is still many months away, but the NLRB’s latest move, while expected, is a giant leap forward in the fight to have college athletes become employees.
, America’s sentiment has started to swing in the favor of players over those in charge—coaches, school administrators and conference officials.“Ultimately, this will end up at the Supreme Court,” Huma says. “And we feel confident about that. If it goes to the highest court in the land, we win.”In the coming months, a hearing will be set in front of an administrative law judge, which will be followed by post-hearing briefs.
Six years after the same board denied Northwestern football players the right to unionize as employees, Abruzzo, a Biden presidential appointee, cracked open a door.“By definition, college athletes are employees under labor law,” Huma told last year. “They are skilled workers in their sport and are paid scholarships. They deserve the rights afforded to them under labor laws like every other American.
The athlete-employee issue, the latest ripple in the NCAA’s ocean of change, has been long speculated. Last September, at a convention of athletic directors in Washington D.C., Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick told a group, “Sometime in this school year, somewhere in the legal world or administrative level, a student-athlete will be declared an employee.”
Beyond the NLRB, there are several avenues in which athletes can be ruled employees, including a collective action suit out of Pennsylvania: Johnson vs. the NCAA. In Congress, Democratic Sens. Chris Murphy and Bernie Sanders introduced the. At the state level, legislation has been introduced to either block athletes from becoming employers of their schools or to grant them that right.
Many administrators balk at the idea of turning college athletes into employees, but several know what’s coming, said Tom McMillen, the president of Lead1, a DC-based organization that represents the FBS athletic directors.
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