![]() ![]() “This guidance from the NLRB is a major step in the right direction, and Congress needs to go further," a statement from Murphy said, in part. On Thursday, a subcommittee of which Trahan is a member, is scheduled to hold a hearing on college sports at which NCAA President Mark Emmert has been set to testify. Lori Trahan, D-Mass., have introduced legislation specifically designed to allow college athletes collective bargaining rights. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., includes such a provision.īut Sen. A bill proposed earlier this year by Sen. The memo could add urgency to the NCAA's efforts to get a bill passed by Congress that would be centered around the NIL issue, but also include a provision specifically stating that college athletes are not school employees. The NCAA released a statement late Wednesday afternoon that read in part: "With college sports embedded within the higher education experience, we firmly believe that college athletes are students who compete against other students, not employees who compete against other employees." “These developments further support the conclusion that (college athletes) are employees under the" labor relations act.Ībruzzo cited the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling against the NCAA in the Alston antitrust case the NCAA’s changes in its rules regarding athletes’ ability to make money from their name, image and likeness (NIL) and college athletes’ activism, which she wrote has “sky-rocketed along with the national attention to social justice issues following the murder of George Floyd and concerns regarding health and safety in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.” “There have been significant developments in the law, NCAA regulations, and the societal landscape, that demonstrate that traditional notions that (college athletes) are amateurs have changed,” she wrote. ![]() ![]() In the memo, she wrote that the environment around college sports had changed considerably since the Northwestern case. "Thus, the broad language of … the Act, the policies underlying the NLRA, Board law, and the common law fully support the conclusion that certain (college athletes) are statutory employees, who have the right to act collectively to improve their terms and conditions of employment." On Wednesday, NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said in a statement accompanying her memo: College athletes “perform services for institutions in return for compensation and (are) subject to their control. ![]() It's just a matter of time, writes Dan Wolken At that time, it said that because the board has no jurisdiction over public schools, addressing the Northwestern effort would run counter to the National Labor Relations Act’s charge that the board create stable and predictable labor environments in various industries. Such an effort occurred in 2014 and ’15 with football players at Northwestern University, but that ended when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) unanimously decided in August 2015 not to accept jurisdiction over the matter. The move sets the stage for a renewal of efforts to organize athletes – most likely football or men’s basketball players – at private schools into unionized collective bargaining units that could seek to set various working conditions, including compensation. The National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel on Wednesday issued a memorandum that says she views college athletes as employees of their schools under the National Labor Relations Act. Watch Video: Why the Supreme Court ruling is a defining blow for NCAA ![]()
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