USC has agreed to dismiss a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) case brought by the National College Players Association (NCPA) arguing that USC student-athletes should be classified as employees. The withdrawal of charges by the NCPA comes after years of legal battle and signifies a potential shift in the landscape of college athletics.
LOS ANGELES — Lincoln Riley hasn’t bit his tongue, for the better part of a year, on his belief on the modern world of college football. This is a “business,” and has been for a while, USC ’s head coach said at a spring event hosted by NIL collective House of Victory. Staff structuring, Riley said in July during the Big Ten Media Days, was moving toward a “professional model.” And in December, Riley referred to a range of USC ’s transfer portal movement as “business decisions.
That’s a legal mouthful. To simplify: if a judge had ruled in the NCPA and NLRB’s favor, it would have opened the door for USC athletes to unionize and collectively bargain with the university, placing USC at the center of potentially radical changes to the operation of college sports. Instead, a years-long fight will likely drift away with the NCPA’s withdrawal, a huge legal monkey off USC’s back.
In May of 2023, after Ramogi Huma, the director of the NCPA, originally brought a case to the NLRB, the labor relations organization filed an official complaint arguing that USC, the Pac-12 and NCAA had “misclassified the Players as non-employee student athletes.” Throughout the initial hearing, held in separate installments at the end of 2023 and beginning of 2024, the NLRB got a variety of points to their favor on record through USC student-athlete testimony – namely,.
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