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Should college students be able to unionize?

Joby said:
Um...yeah.

What happens when you walk into a shop and you tear your ACL doing what they asked you to?
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You chose to do what they told you to do knowing itwas dangerous, you didn't have to.

People that hurt themselves doing hobbies are responsible for their injuries.

You're going to get paid, and it's not going to matter how much store credit they gave you.
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So a student can sue the school, still don't think they are forced to play.
 
Your Star said:
Yes. They aren't asking for cash, they are asking for their medical bills to be covered and for their schoolwork to be respected. How are those bad things? These schools are earning millions of the backs of these kids who are putting their bodies on the line; the least these schools could do is pay for the medical bills and make sure they have adequate time to study.
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Yeah that sounds right, especially since they are being forced to play football and forced to not study.
 
Del Zeppnile said:
Yeah that sounds right, especially since they are being forced to play football and forced to not study.
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Doesn't matter if it's voluntary, the school sanctions it and makes money off of it. They should be liable for the medical bills associated it the activity.
 
Your Star said:
Doesn't matter if it's voluntary, the school sanctions it and makes money off of it. They should be liable for the medical bills associated it the activity.
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Aren't they? I really don't know.

What I do know is that while we're all familiar with the Bama/name-your-team football players who start or have been redshirted and will start next year, there are many players who aren't on full scholarship.

I also know that all the larger football programs have tutoring services--very often the university's grad students in various fields--for the players too, and very often, this is a 24-hour-a-day service. There are Academic All-Americans, but many football players are there to play/be drafted rather than to complete a degree. Because their eligibility is at stake, the program sees to it that every academic opportunity is offered to them.
 
RiverDad said:
If you believe that English majors bring loads of money into the school by writing beatnik poetry and having coffeehouse readings which are televised to the nation, then sure, their intellect, labor and dramatic talent is being used to enrich the school and they're not getting an equitable cut from their work. Same with wymym's studies majors - I know that many a bored Saturday afternoon I'm in the mood to watch a bunch of feminist harridans lecture a tv audience with feminist theory and recite a bunch of mindless boilerplate. Hoo-boy that's good entertainment and if these harridans are enriching their school with TV contracts and revenues from concerts and speaking tours, then they're entitled to get a cut of all those millions that they're bringing into the school.
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Actually, I believe the NLRB is full of crap, and is stacked in favor of orgainized labor at any cost, as this bogus ruling proves. My point is, in my opinion, they've selected college athletics as a wedge issue, in an attempt to bring some BS social justice agenda into the situation. The fact they used a scholarship as the measure of "income" suggests any other student receiving a scholarship would fit the same "employee of the college" test. Obviously this proves their basis is flawed, and only serves to prove the NLRB's bias.
 
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