See, I got the feeling that the NLRB is saying they don’t want to tackle this on a case by case basis with each individual university because they will hit a brick wall in almost 90% of those cases. Those being the public universities.
I think that’s why they included the qualifier that I quoted above. They want to consider a case for all scholarship athletes under the NCAA umbrella. NCAA is not a state-run organization.
It isn’t that they’ll hit a brick wall, it’s that they won’t be able to get moving at all and that’s because employees of state governments aren’t covered by the laws the NLRB oversees. But I fail to see how that should be taken into consideration since NW is a private school. My home state of Nevada employs electricians, but electricians working for privately owned companies can unionize; how is the NW players situation any different from that?
But none of the players work for the NCAA; they work for the schools that are members of the NCAA.
IMO, basically the whole thing is a huge conspiracy to keep these athletes in thrall so the schools, the media, the sports books and the NCAA can all make money from the athletes’ labor. It’s somewhat frustrating to me because it’s so freaking obvious but the powers-that-be are so entrenched in their money-making machine’s mechanics that they can’t or won’t admit to the reality of the situation, and our government officials bow to that too. It’s sad and perplexing, too.