NCAA Hit With NLRB Complaint Over Athletes’ Worker Status (2)

The National Collegiate Athletic Association, Pac-12 Conference, and University of Southern California face federal allegations of violating labor law by failing to treat collegiate athletes as employees.

A National Labor Relations Board regional director in Los Angeles alleged in a complaint Thursday that the school, conference, and athletic association jointly employ student football and basketball players, whom they illegally misclassified as “non-employee student-athletes.”

The case opens a lane for collegiate athletes to unionize at a time when labor organizing and strike action in higher education is surging, a potentially major shakeup to a business that generates billions in revenue for ...