Labor/Employment
Jul. 17, 2014
The NLRB and the end of amateurism
The NLRB's March 26 decision that student-athletes can legally be considered employees has already opened the door to other "employee" protections and forced the NCAA to address student-athlete concerns. By David Murphy
Walter Byers, the man credited with building much of the modern National Collegiate Athletic Association but who later became disillusioned with the business entity it was becoming, once observed that, no matter what the criticisms were, only Congress or the courts could force the NCAA to change. Byers would very likely add the National Labor Relations Board to that list today.
Until the NLRB's Chicago Region ruled that Northwestern ...
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