NLRB Move to Aid Pursuit of College Athletes as Employees

In an interview last January, ESPN lead football analyst Kirk Herbstreit made a proclamation: You might as well make college athletes employees.

“I say we’re on a path to unionization,” he said on the “Pardon My Take” podcast. “That’s where we’re headed.”

Less than a year later, the movement to make college athletes employees of their universities took another significant step.