More resistance to players’ unionization at Northwestern, with the same tired tactics and arguments
As the NY Times reports, there’s continuing resistance to Northwestern football players’ proposed unionization. And it’s more of the same old, same old combination of, on the one hand, dividing workers, and on the other, suggesting that management is nice and has the employees’ best interests at heart.
New history, CLASS feature: weekly Friday funnies
Time to inaugurate a new weekly feature at History, CLASS: the Friday funnies. Today, below the fold, Jon Stewart and cartoonist David Sipress. Enjoy, and enjoy the weekend.
Can’t have NCAA athletes stick up for themselves! It will end civilization!
It will be the end of the game! Parents won’t be able to play catch with their kids! Snow will fall up! The terrorists will win! So said critics of the possibility of baseball players being free agents (when the issue came before the Supreme Court in 1915), and when Major League baseball integrated in […]
Unlike Colbert, college football coach follows age-old anti-union playbook
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video Archive Another development in the continuing story of the Northwestern University football players who dared, dared suggest that their university cared more about dollars than athletes, and that perhaps unionization might get them a voice in their own employment “student-athletic careers.” And some of […]
NCAA athletes closer to unionization, closer to the workplace safety they deserve
Two days ago, adjuncts unionizing in DC, yesterday, a ruling from a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional director that college athletes may unionize. The ruling is essentially provisional, because Northwestern University, one of whose football players pushed for the union, will appeal the decision to the NLRB. The AP does a pretty good job […]