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I wonder if this will spark student athletes in major football and basketball programs to follow suit.
by snomad 9y ago
I wonder if this will spark student athletes in major football and basketball programs to follow suit.
- maxerickson 9y agoThere are already a fair number of graduate student unions so probably not.
- sjg007 9y agoThey definitely should.
- sgillen 9y agoThis would be a long time coming. In my experience athletes at big programs are even more vulnerable and more exploited than graduate students. It's a similar situation, but there are even less professional jobs, less alternatives after graduation, and a n increased risk for injury.
- chris_7 9y agoDo they get to take advantage of labor laws protecting organizing since they're not actually, like, employed? Obviously the minimum wage doesn't apply to them... If they don't have the protection, doing that could jeopardize any chance they have of going to the NFL (not that most of them make it anyways).
- cfqycwz 9y agoStudent athletes' biggest protection from retaliation is probably their incredible power over the institution and high level of visibility, as demonstrated by the actions of the Mizzou players during #concernedstudent1950. Football players, at least in D1, have also been determined to at least have some of the rights to concerted action protected under the NLRA: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/02/nlrb-general-counsel-says-private-college-football-players-are-employees https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/02/nlrb-general-... Of course, while that does protect them from their current employer (the school), I don't think it can protect them against the reluctance of a potential future employer (like the NFL).
- closeparen 9y agoProbably not at UChicago.