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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NLRB says an athlete is an employee, not a "student-athlete".
https://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2021/09/29/615471d2e4b099230d1ddf1d.pdf[/quote]

Scholarship athletes are employees. The school is paying you. Make no doubt about it[/quote]

And the school is making money off of many of its "student-athletes," while the students are forbidden to make the money themselves.  It's mostly an issue in big revenue sports like football and basketball, where schools make a ton of money off of students' playing, licensing apparel, etc.  Those players take on the risk of injury, and sometimes the amount of time required of them impinges on their ability to get a meaningful education.  A lot of exploitation was permitted because we all pretended that they were amateurs.[/quote]

An inventor who works for a company doesn't have rights to her own invention patents either. All work product of an employee done while employed belongs to the employer. So officially making them employees doesn't help much in that regard.[/quote]

they already have NIL rights. The thing that this really changes is that they can collectively bargain and they'll be entitled to benefits like Workmans comp[/quote]

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