Northwestern football players seek to join union

On what basis can you sue for discrimination? What is stopping other athletes in other sports from unionizing?

 

Discrimination suits??? What are you talking about?

 

The first lacrosse player who figures he deserves a cut of what the football players are making.

Do you really think the revenue-making aspect is going to override that?

 

Who exactly would he sue? The lacrosse player can organize his lacrosse-playing friends and see how far they get.

 

The school? The NCAA?

All I'm saying is, you open the can, the worms will be flying everywhere.

 

Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972
(Title 20 U.S.C. Sections 1681-1688)

-- Privacy and Security Statement --
-- DISCLAIMER --

Section 1681. Sex
(a) Prohibition against discrimination; exceptions. No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance...
Section 1687. Interpretation of "program or activity"
For the purposes of this title, the term "program or activity" and "program" mean all of the operations of --
(3)(A) an entire corporation, partnership, or other private organization, or an entire sole proprietorship --

Essentially, the university, nor the NCAA, could pay male athletes without paying female athletes.

 

So? People who have a legitimate cases that they're employees can attempt to organize. The NLRB will make a decision.

 

How many lawsuits have you seen due to football weight rooms being shining palaces of the latest workout equipment, while the women's field hockey team gets 10-year-old hand-me-downs from the volleyball team?

The lawyers can find a way around Title IX to give football players a little more sugar without having to pay women's crew or men's cross country.

 

I've heard that being said quite a bit lately, mostly by people who think women's sports are being made the scapegoat here, but I don't see how that's true.

 

Women's sports are scapegoated quite a bit. Schools cut sports, blame Title IX and then spend double what they would on those cut teams to build a indoor practice facility for the football team.

And, honestly, with the TV money the NCAA rakes in I'd wager it could afford to give every athlete on campus $1,000 per month from August to June and still turn a healthy profit.

 

If the football and basketball players are deemed employees how would Title IX have any affect?

 

The simple solution would seem to be to distinguish between employees and student athletes. These players are saying we're NOT student athletes; we're employees because the school has turned our sport into a revenue-generating business.