a regional nlrb director said they were employees and gave the go ahead for an election in the spring. players cast ballots, but the votes were locked away for more than a year, pending a review by the full board. although the nlrb denied the wild cats petition, it didn't determine whether the scholarship athletes are employees. sports attorney said that might mean a larger group might have better luck organizing. >> from a logical standpoint, it would be more like all football players in a conference or maybe all football players in division 1ncaa level, now there's a lot of legal reasons why some of that could be messy, some states have labor laws. >> the attorney said she shined a light on what he considered rigged ncaa rules. the association said this ruling allows us to continue to make progress for the college athletes without risking the instability to college sports that the nlrb recognized might occur under the labor petition. al jazeera, chicago. >> new york yankees pitcher became the latest to get hit in the head with a line drive. he has a fractured nose but appears to hav

but the nlrb said doing so would not promote stability in labor relations.response to the board's decision was swift. capa's president said that is not a loss but it is a loss of time. it delays players securing the leverage they need to protect themselves from traumatic brain injury, sports-related medical expenses and other gaps in protections. >>> another tweet, disappointed by the nlrv ruling but can't deny the positive changes brought about by athletes standing up. proud of those guys. northwestern said it is pleased with the decision. stating we applaud our players bringing national attention to these important issues but we believe strongly that unionization and collective bargaining are not the protect methods to address the concerns raised by student-athletes. >>> the players petitioned for union reputation for january of last year, but the university argued that scholarship players are not employees, and therefore could not organize. but a regional nlrb director said that they were employees and gave the go head for election in the spring. players

you saw the heads of all the major athletic conferences cheering the nlrb for this ruling. that is the equivalent of the mafia cheering the cancellation of the organized crime task force. that tells you everything you need to be told about the effectiveness thing. the logic of this is going to be as college sports gets more and more money, we will end up, it's a question of when. al: it's a financial racket. and they reschedule things and done away with old rivalries and has to deal with money and they are going to have to pay the price for that. john: i think on the part of the nlrb, we are going to say boy, this would cause chaos and it would be disruptive and therefore going to take a pass and pocket veto the thing. it seems cowardly. and rule on the merit and not rule on disruption of the system. i think they were craven in not addressing this thing on its merits on whether it made sense or not. al: but it's not going to go away. john: coming up, the pride of iowa, former senator tom harkin. no steaks, fries or pork chops on sticks. john: we were out at the iowa state f

. >> that is the issue the nlrb was wrestling with, because they didn't say they weren't employed. they just said it upsets this ncaa football in a way that is impossible to administer fairly. >> reporter: the whole issue could still be brought back to the nlrb once again in the future. >>> travel is expected to make this summer the busiest ever for airlines. more than 14 million passengers are expected to fly over the labor day holiday. that is a 3% increase from last year and it could break records for summer travel. >> wow. we are road tripping so we won't be in the air, but okay. good to hear that things are going well for the airlines. jill wagner at the new york stock exchange, thank you, jill. >>> for the first time in u.s. history, two women made it through the rigorous army ranger training and graduate on friday. they learned to overcome fatigue and hunger and distress. hena daniels is here in new york. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the u.s. military began the process to open thousands of pfront line combat jobs to women about two years ago. service branches hav

this was a 100% partisan vote at the nlrb so, if i own a franchise in sweetwater, texas, a kentucky fried chicken, my employees can go to the headquarters of kfc and demand -- they've unionized -- and demand a wage increase. despite the fact headquarters has no idea about my market, it's my mom and pop, they dictate to me the wages. in converse, you can also be held responsible for your franchisees, which the headquarters have no control over. these aren't your ceos trying to buy a third home. these are your mom and pop stores now that are going to be pushed back to the corporate headquarters. all it is is a union grab. >> emily, you this is a good thing. why? >> i do. i think it's more simple than that. i think these are large corporations that to their franchisees they dictate qualifications for hiring, they dictate shift schedules, they dictate how they input all of that information, and now the employee can start to about like the corporate is their employer. they've been acting like their employer. now the employee can start to deal with them like they are employer. >> but gary b., t

we are pleased that the nlrb has agreed with the university's position. there is no response for comment. therefore, the panel did not rule on the central question of whether college athletes fits the definition of employees. >> eric, freedom for an american reporter is on hold today. jason has been in the notorious teheran prison on charges of espionage that he denies. last week a verdict was imminent. and could be coming by today. but they now say the trial is not over. jason's family is awaiting the fate. we have his brother here. a li, last week we talked and you were hopeful and now what? >> we are still waiting to hear from our lawyer. we were expecting it tomorrow or the next day. their law said it should be within seven days. we hope they will stick for that. >> what is the lawyer advising. >> she's trying to see the judge. they will tell her when the verdict comes down and we'll be able to find out. just continuing to talk about his innocence and no evidence against him. is just a sham. >> your mother is in teheran and able to see him sporaticall

it was made by the nlrb, the nation labor relations board.have consequences for companies involved. adam shapiro is here to break it down for us. adam? >> one of the things at stake is ability for one company to hire another company to perform work when they don't need full-time employees. let's go through some. numbers. the international franchise association is saying this is political decision. three democrats, versus two republicans on nlrb, allowing rules to change on what is referred to as joint employment. we go by the numbers. 780,000 franchise businesses in the united states affected. 300 different business categories. think of mcdonald's. that is one of the business categories, burger king. legal franchisees could be affected by this. merry maids, that is franchise operation. they could be affected. $890 billion worth of economic output at stake. essentially what the nlrb has done is cleared the way for unions to drag, this is the hypothetical, just so we can understand, mcdonald's is the brand but the mcdonald's across the street i

a nlrb official sided with coulter and his teammates. the final ruling should end upcoming soon. one analyst told us that the players have a really good chance in washington winning that case. >> if we were putting probabilities on it we would probably put 60/40 it will go in favor of the athletes. again these are political bodies. so they're kind of swayed by many different factors. but nlrb in particular has a little more leeway. >> reporter: here at howard university we spoke to the head coach earlier today. he told us if the northwestern players end up winning, he feels his player will take notice that could be a story you end up seeing if they win the case all across the country, all overncaa. cheryl: some people say they deserve it. they deserve to be paid, this could make-or-break their career. >> reporter: hard to argue. cheryl: blake, thank you so much. great. >> reporter: report thanks. cheryl: coming up after the break, google take as giant step into the future, rebanding itself as alphabet. weil look at impact from the investors to the innovators. coming up nexts. . .

although the nlrb denied the wildcats' petition, it didn't determine whether they are employees.s attorney eldon hamm said that might mean a larger group might have better luck organizing. >> from a logical standpoint, it would be more like all ball players in a conference or maybe all football players at division 1 ncaa level, now, there is a lot of legal reasons why some of that could get messy. some states have labor laws that would get in the way of that and so on. ham says the players have won a victory by shining a light on rigid ncaa rules. in a statement, the association said, this ruling allows us to continue to make progress for the college athletes without risking the instability to college sports that the nlar recognized might occur under the labor petition. now, ham thinks organizing is probably unlikely but what this effort has done is given these student athletes a seat at the table with the other universities and the ncaa. john? >> diane, thank you. for more on college athletes and the fight for compensation, you can watch fault lines wednesday, 6:30 p.m. eastern

. >> reporter: the new ruling may affect the upcoming case nlrb filed against mcdonald's and franchisees. the bottom line of the decision is that all that said, workers' rights are important. >> franchise owners are unhappy with the ruling, arguing they would not we able to run their own businesses if they had no control over pay and benefits. business groups called on congress to overturn the 3-2 ruling. >> socki salmon is pushed closer to extinction by human action. the changing environment in i'd ror next. >> and the latest forecast for tropical storm erica as it threatens to hit the u.s. as a hurricane. hurricane. >> top architect david adjaye. >> for architecture to be >>> tropical storm eriksson weakened, not before it pumedly a tiny island triggering land sides. erica is bearing down on puerto rico. it could hit haiti and the dominican republic. the storm is expected to hit the eastern united states next week, and by then it could reach hurricane status, but the nhc says there's high uncertainty with this storm >>> n.a.s.a. is warning that global warming is taking effect faster th

the nlrb said that contract workers can bargain with a parent company.ere's why that is so important. big fast food companies like mcdonald's repeatedly claim that fast food workers cannot bargain with them because the individual franchise owners were really those workers' employers. now, if fast food workers are forced to negotiate with every individual franchise, that obviously gives those workers much less leverage. the ruling by the nlrb dealt with the recycling center, not a fast food restaurant, but legal experts are expecting the ruling to be applied to various kinds of fights between fast food workers and their parent companies. appeals to this huge ruling are also expected, but it's still good. the potential bargaining power of people that work hard looking to make a wage that they and their families can live on. >>> for a while it was a pretty perfect day for jamaican sprinter usain bolt. after a dramatic victory over american rival justin gatlin in the 100-meter world track and field championships on sunday, bolt easily defeated gatlin today i

an historic decision that would have let the athletes form collective bargaining units, now the nlrbas thrown that out and there is no available channel to appeal that particular ruling. >> interesting. much talked about at the time. sue, thank you so much. sue herera with the latest. good to have pete with us today. look, your name has been bandied about for an open athletic director job in division i college football. what do you think about this? >> yeah. i think this ruling makes some sense to me, scott. right now if there is going to be anything that throws off the competitive balance any way, shape or form, obviously what they talked about this thing that sue was just describing, seems to me they have got to have it, going to have to be something more universal f it's not, schools that are going to unionize and schools that are not, i don't know how you could possibly do that. i think that makes sense right now. i don't think this is the end of it though. >> let's move back to the market. pick up on a stock that josh brown thinks was too attractive to pass up. alibaba, bought t

the nlrb did not address whether football players are school employees, instead it ruled that the prospect of union and nonunion teams could throw off the competitive balance in college football. the ruling only applies to private schools. >>> fixing america's infrastructure. the american society of civil engineers says trillions of dollars need to be spent just to maintain or modestly upgrade everything from roads to bridges. so all this week we'll examine some of the major infrastructure issues facing this country. and some possible solutions. we begin our series called "the big fix" with a look at the overcrowded rail system. tonight morgan brennan takes us to a csx terminal in ohio where a company is making a big investment in the network so it can haul more intermodal containers that can transport gs by either ship, truck or rail. >> it's a big car to the future, freight rail. up by more than a third since 2009. but much of the infrastructure has remained stuck in the past. that's changing. how do you quadruple capacity in a sentry-old freight rail tunnel extending one mile under the

one of the arts that the nlrb made and we're starting to pour over there.e arguments that they made it because the big ten conference which is -- 12 teams story for another day but because of those 12 teams 11 of them are public. private institution. in this case players were pitted against their own university and northwestern released a statement. i'll read some of it here quoting here we applaud our players for bringing attention to public issues but we strongly believe that unionization and collective bargaining is not appropriate raised bit student athlete. a loss there for the season even begins or some of those players who were potentially seeking to unionize. we should point out charles, that the vote that was made a couple of last year -- the result of that we believe, will not be made public. so -- >> all right that's the whole thing won't go away. college players wanting to get paid it won't be through unions. >> just the beginning of it. >> thanks a lot blake appreciate it. as hillary clinton is struggling with a growing e-mail controversy, vice

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a major victory tonight for a college sports establishment the nlrb unanimously voting to overturn a historic ruling giving football players at northwestern permission to unionize that that could give them a competitive bid vantage over non unionized teams therefore it will only apply to private schools such as northwestern. we will be right back. >> the critics ask trompe for details on his immigration policy and today he delivered. we will find out what former bush adviser karl rove thinks about it. to $150 billion deal and the price tag is rising. what a view these spectacular images are next. ♪ ♪ ♪ if you can't stand the heat, get off the test track. get the mercedes-benz you've been burning for at the summer event, going on now at your authorized mercedes-benz dealer. but hurry, offers end august 31st. share your summer moments in your mercedes-benz with us. hi. hi. hello. hi. hi. hi. hi my name's josh. kelly. my name is raph. steve. my name is anne. tom. brian. krystal. and i am definitely not a robot. i'm one of the real live attorneys you can talk to through legalzoom. whethe

a major victory tonight for a college sports establishment the nlrb unanimously voting to overturn a historic ruling giving football players at northwestern permission to unionize that that could give them a competitive bid vantage over non unionized teams therefore it will only apply to private schools such as northwestern. we will be right back. >> the critics ask trompe for details on his immigration policy and today he delivered. we will find out what former bush adviser karl rove thinks about it. to $150 billion deal and the price tag is rising. what a view these spectacular images are next. stay with us. can a business have a mind? a subconscious. a knack for predicting the future. reflexes faster than the speed of thought. can a business have a spirit? can a business have a soul? can a business be...alive? (ee-e-e-oh-mum-oh-weh) (hush my darling...) (don't fear my darling...) (the lion sleeps tonight.) (hush my darling...) man snoring (don't fear my darling...) (the lion sleeps tonight.) woman snoring take the roar out of snore. yet another innovation only at a sleep number st

that overturns a decision by the regional nlrb director that ruled the players were university employees. the ruling was limited strictly to the northwestern football team but it reverberates around the country. tebow returned to the nfl throwing for 69 yards last night for the eagles and ran for a touchdown for the first time in two years. whent a standing ovation he entered midway through the third quarter. he had not played since the 2013 preseason before he was cut by the new england patriots. that is a look at the top stories. up, we will look at a tough road that the australian golfer jason day traveled in his quest to win the pga championship. betty: what an incredible story and we will look at a new study that finds that blacks and hispanics are not benefiting as much as in and to a from college education compared to whites and asians. the federal reserve system is welcoming a new member, robert steven kaplan of harvard university will be the new president of the dallas fed. michael mckee is here to talk about what exactly he brings to the table. what do we know about him? michae

the nlrb will go a little faster, harder and deeper into achieving their goals.at you talked about the great innovations and the quality of food, talked about the economic circumstances being improved for everyone involved, could be that put on hold or derailed if they keep pushing this? >> well american entrepreneurs have been overcoming government interference since world war ii, it's gotten to the point where it's very, very difficult to overcome what's going on. we have candidates out there. bush, rubio, walker, carly fiorina, a lot of business friendly candidates and hoping people looking to their children's futures, to their own futures and the best interests of the united states and economy will look very hard at what candidates are promoting business growth, personal growth, individual liberty and the dignity and self-respect of work and what candidates support government dependence and this continued growth in government which is killing us as a country. charles: people think i'm crazy, i'd love to see someone promote lower minimum wage to get someone in

mason: not with the nlrb. that process is done. there is no avenue for them. way they did, we have not heard from them yet because this just came out, there is still potential that another group will file, maybe a bigger group. what issue was that northwestern stood alone in doing this. there are 17 private schools, maybe if they banded together, that could change things. it is tough to say. betty: $76 million in profit? mason: over a decade, that is what the report said. betty: thank you for joining us. what is coming up? mark: alix steel is going to join us. commodities in the news. , aot has to do with china lot has to do with the nuclear deal with iran and how that will affect oil prices. expert.our commodities we will talk to hers. betty: she is our commodities guru. thank you for joining us. the end of an era. era -- thesubsidy cepp phon -- the cell phone subsidy era. ♪ betty: happening now, some breaking news on the dallas fed. : federal reserve bank of dallas has named a new president and ceo. going to assume that post on september 8. notable also is t

this only applies to private schools under nlrb.ght. >> some states don't even allow collective bargaining. i think the problem they will have, putting a unit together, getting consensus among all those players difficult. once you are a union, you have to have the ability to threaten or carry out a strike. liz: exactly. >> the history of 17 through 21-year-olds sticking together on any issue against the university is not very good. liz: good point. jarvis, lsu is obviously a state school but would you related to getting a little bit of money? you got some money, i right, basic payments but it was not enough to help you? >> yes, as far as payments we got pell grant. that was very minimum, as far as you trying to find an apartment off campus. you have utility bills. you have a car you have to pay as far as insurance, your gas. you had -- when i played at lsu. i had summer job. working 40 hours a week. i still had summer school. i still had to practice every day in the hot sun. from that you still don't have enough. i think every playe

that overturns a decision by a regional nlrb director who ruled that football players were university employees. today's ruling is limited strictly to northwestern's football team. mark: the united states is betting on the senseless to keep it stream of hosting the 2024 summer olympics alive. lastn withdrew its bid month due to lack of public support. after failed bids from new york city and chicago for 2012 and 2016, does the u.s. stand a chance of winning this time around? we spoke with the former u.s. a lithic committee executive director. >> they presented the international olympic committee three things. one is stable government, security, and the ability to activate the sponsorship it when you combine all of those things, it will be very competitive. except for the fact that paris is back in paris lost a couple of months to london and i think there -- they are a formidable opponent. says heneral schiller doubts the senseless will lose money if they host the lip extreme that is a look at the top stories -- if they posted the other picks. -- if they host the olympics. that is a lo

. >>> the way home builders do business could be drastically different by a new ruling from the nlrbld make them responsible for what their contractors do. diana olick is taking a look at that potential impact. what have you found? >> mandy, it is a major change to the government's joint employer status which could now put builders on the hook for issues involving everything from labor violations and union negotiations with subcontractors. now the nlrb declined our request for an interview but in a release said the board's previous standard has failed to keep pace with changes in the workplace and economic circumstances. while the ruling covers all employers from fast food companies to health care to high-tech, it is particularly profound for nation's home builders because they rely heavily on specialty trade contractors. that's your roofers, electricians, framers, they're calling it everything from unnecessary to crippling. >> this ruling really if it is applied to small businesses, applied to the home building sector, really shows no understanding of 80% of the marketplace. it's ju

on the bench, the question was, were nurses, supervisors and they were unable to organize under the nlrb. and i said, of course, they are employees, not supervisors. that was for four people. i think that -- and then coming around the other way now, it's very hard to be a supervisor under had the decision. >> you mentioned you arrived, when you arrived at the court in 1993, you were only the second woman, of course, ever to serve on the highest court. your colleague, justice o'connor was appointed by president reagan 12 years earlier. when you think back to that time and your experience now for 22 years working with the very wide range of colleagues. what do you think you've learned about the art of persuasion? is it possible to persuade one's colleagues? and if so, how? >> i'm really interested. >> possibly. >> possible, yes. is it something that happens often? no. i can remember one dissent that john paul stevens assigned to me, the dissent came around, the vote at conference was 7-2. the opinion came out 6-3, but the two had swelled to six. and that was some heady experience turning a

without getting the complexity of the nlrb, you tell me directly how your fast food operation will be well, stuart, in a representative democracy, power shouldn't flow from the barrel of ten and increasingly that's what we're seeing from the nlrb and other agencies. it fundamentally puts a barrier between the franchisee and the franchise, white castle is not franchise but we worked with contract employers. our industry is strong with because of franchisees and we compete in the marketplace, we want our colleagues to not have to compete with the government. stuart: okay. so you use contractors; right? how is that -- how is this ruling going to hurt you, white castle, versus your contractors? who gets hurt? >> well, what it does is it takes over 30 years of precedent and says we're treated the same as that contractor we're working with. so we're responsible things -- we're held accountable with and things we have no connection other than this as a partner that we agree to work with. and our frozen foods, contract employees, they're from an employment agency. they're saying now with this

. >> this new ruling may affect an upcoming case, the nlrb filed against mcdonald's and its franchisesor retaliating against workers who joined protests for higher wages. >> the bottom line of this decision is that all that being said, that workers rights are also important. >> antonio mora, al jazeera. >> franchise owners areun happy with the ruling. they argue they won't be able to run their businesses if they have no control over the benefits of the employees they hire. business groups are calling on congress to overturn the ruling. >> california marks a major victory against drought. residents cut water use 31%. it comes after water saving measures were mandate for the state's 30 million residents, that includes watering lawns on specific days, using water saving devices and punishing heavy users with fines. >> tracking ivory poachers in africa with fake elephant tusks. a new national geographic program shows how investors are getting creative to learn the traveling routes. >> a fake elephant tusk and inside, i want him to embed a custom made g.p.s. tracking system so i can follow

get the nlrb in there before the change of politics in 18 months' time. >> they installed the $15 minimumls in los angeles a couple years ago and moody's reported that for the first time job growth in hotel workers is down 2% over the past six months. >> i believe that tells the story. thanks, everybody. we have to take one more break. and when we come back, our hits and misses of the week. did you know that meeting your daily protein needs actually helps to support your muscle health? boost® high protein nutritional drink can help you get the protein you need. each serving has 15 grams of protein to help maintain muscle, plus 26 vitamins and minerals including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones. boost® high protein is the #1 selling high protein complete nutritional drink and it has a great taste-guaranteed! help get the nutrition you need everyday with boost® high protein. join the club at brandpower.com. >>> it is time now for our hits and misses of the week. and, kim, first to you. >> yet another miss to the obama green energy program. the epa inspector general released a r

the nlrb which declined a request for an interview in a release says the board's previous standard failedes in the work place and economic circumstances. while the ruling covers all employers from fast food companies to health care to high tech, it's particularly profound for the nation's home builders. they rely heavily on specially trade contractors like roofers, electricians and framers. they are call it from unnecessary to saying it's crippling. builders cannot fight the ruling until there is a specific case brought against them. i did speak with the ceo of lennar. he says he thinks his business is highly differentiated from this case, but he admits he is alert to the ruling and watching it. >> thank you. bringing the panel in here. this specific ruling had nothing to do with the builders, right? >> this ruling did not have to do specifically with the builders. it was entirely another case about a recycling company. it could apply, not just to builders, but across all spectrums. talking about franchises and mcdonald's or even uber. >> how would it manifest in terms of increased cost o

. >> was this a surprise from the nlrb? aren't they considered to have a liberal majority?>> frankly i thought this ruling was going to go the players' way. they do have a liberal majority, it's three democrats and two republicans. liberals in general, i think, are more disposed to the argument that these players are making. there was a lot of politics behind this. i don't -- i can't speak to what was going through the board members' minds but this was potentially politically explosive. you already had members of congress weighing in on this, republicans in particular saying this would be disastrous if players could unionize. and congress -- congress funds the labor board. so had they given the go ahead for these players and granted in the end northwestern a union, i think the politics of this would have been very, very big and it would have brought the whole board under a lot more scrutiny. >> we're talking about this topic for about the next 20, 25 minutes or so here at the end of our show today on "the washington journal." dave jamison of the huffington post is our guest

number two, it would apply to private universities because nlrb doesn't have jurisdiction over publiczation at the private universities, the public universities will have the impact. where are you going to go, a cut of the revenue or a private university? would that be your choice then? >> good analogy. dagen. we'll get the final thoughts. and triple-digit decline in trading. we'll be back with mornings with maria. the microsoft cloud gives our team the power to instantly deliver critical information to people, whenever they need it. here at accuweather, we get up to 10 billion data requests every day. the cloud allows us to scale up so we can handle that volume. we can help keep people safe; and to us that feels really good. protect and manage your home.o at&t digital life home security and automation. digital life gives you round-the-clock monitored home security for your family's peace of mind... plus with the easy-to-use app, you can access your system remotely from your smartphone, tablet or pc... ...and it's easy to set up text or email alerts so you'll know right away if someth

the other colleges, the state schools are ruled by boards that generally take the same thing as the nlrbealized this is the ncaa and maybe not the place to be wading into things. but the good news on all of this is no matter what's happened this has gotten a lot of publicity and situations have changed. they have raised the stipens to make it easier to perform. these are jobs. >> it's done. >> over. >> that's it. >> and i feel for the student athletes. they need to be treated better than they are at this point but this would have created such chaos. >> i don't disagree with you on that. >> no. >> okay. i got a story. i want to talk about nannys this morning. and by the way we're not talking about ben afleck this morning. >> this has nothing to do with why you chose the topic. >> nothing to do with ben afleck. >> why would you do that. >> it has to do with work place issues. kkr has made a very very interesting decision. i'm very curious what you think about this because you travel with kyle all the time. kkr is now going to pay, if you work there and you are the primary caregiver, you ca

a new nlrb, national relations working board, making it easier for people who work freelance get thenefits as full-time workers. it's going to have a huge effect on all kinds of businesses, especially in the food industry. let's welcome apple metro ceo who runs and owns 37 apple bees in the new york area. all right, zayn, this ruling, i know it's very technical stuff. what does it mean for you, how bad is s is it for you? >> well, not just me, the whole space. a franchisee, picks his site, uses his money, gets no help from the franchise, he's a businessman. stuart: yeah. >> he pays a fee to use the mark, use the name, get a broad advertising piece and core menu. shortly of that, you run your own menu. franchises are always at odds to some degree because you're using their mark but your money. stuart: okay. >> now he's held liable along with you, his intrusiveness into running your business. not his money, not his hirings because he is liable on the litigation side of any workplace violations that occur. stuart: oh, that's what this is all about. >> right. so all of a sudden now he ha