Labor Secretary: Book open on unions at college campuses
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) Labor Secretary Thomas Perez says the question of allowing college athletes to form unions "remains open" despite a federal ruling that this is impermissible.
Perez tells MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program there remains a key question about how workers "have a voice in the workplace."
Perez calls resolving that question part of government's "unfinished business." And he tells the network Tuesday that the government must continue to work for a society of "shared prosperity."
The National Labor Relations Board on Monday dismissed a NLRB regional director's 2014 ruling involving an organizing attempt at Northwestern University. The board concluded that having both union and nonunion teams could lead to different standards at different schools and create competitive imbalances throughout college sports. The ballots cast by players will be destroyed without being counted.
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d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)Everybody is making money except the performers. And in some cases they're unable to perform ever again. Let'em organize! If they're old enough to play a dangerous sport they're old enough to start a union!
AnPak
(31 posts)... of everyone else?
IOW, if the 'student' athletes get more benefits and goodies, how does the school keep from screwing over the rest of the student body to pay for it? Or is that just a given?
Omaha Steve
(99,649 posts)The University of Nebraska receives no state $ for it's athletic budget. Other universities do put $ in the sports departments.
Already most college sports don't pay for themselves. Football and basketball are the BIG exceptions.The old argument is shut down sports that lose $. There go scholarships to kids of poor families that don't have top grades.