Thursday, April 17, 2014

football players unionize

On March 26, Peter Ohr, Regional Director of National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) Region 13 held that Northwestern University’s football players are in fact school employees and have the right to form a labor union. and they did.
but this is wrong their not employees. the employees at a college are teachers, coaches, and instructors. they teach everyone else who are the students how to do whatever they are teaching. soon they will be asking for money. it won't be the first thing that will happen but they will eventually once most teams have a union. then they will get it even though it is currently against N.A.C.C. policy. but that might even hurt them because of taxes.
they do seem to have some reasons that are good though. apparently the N.C.A.A. is good at forgetting players once they are injured. but if players are being treated unfairly then they don’t need to have a union. they can appeal to or sue the N.C.A.A. for protection. but they don't need to be employees. even though the N.C.A.A. should sufficiently care for them if they get hurt in a game, that's not a reason to become employees. just convince the government that the N.C.A.A. have a legal right to do so.
i think that
college athletes aren't employees. it's more like a apprenticeship than anything else. they learn how to do the job (play the sport) and develop their ability in it, so that they can go on to do it successfully as a professional. professional teams want to see that they player has had experience and has been good on the field. and that is easiest if there's a big team that the players go on as preparation before they become a pro. so
many professional sports have minor leagues to train players but in the case of N.F.L. and the N.B.A. the N.C.A.A. is the minor league.

so this whole thing shouldn't happen. and if it continues they will eventually ask for pay and then schools may not have enough money for other areas or sports. so i think they should have fixed their problems they say they had within the system, and not create this new system.


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