the united steelworkers. >> well, i think these athletes better be careful what they wish for.ey are deemed employees, they will then have to pay federal taxes, have to pay state taxes, pay union dues. i think they may realize they had a better deal getting a $75,000 a year scholarship untaxed than having to pay taxes. >> juan, i can see it. collective bargaining, guys on the field saying you know what, coach, it's hot. look at my contract here. it says i don't have to practice in 100-degree heat. come on. collective bargaining for college kids? >> oh, gee, you guys sound like you are back in the 70s and arguing about whether or not there should be rights for baseball players and football players. that's what happened there. let me say if you don't think that what's going on is a business you're fooling yourself. they raise billions of dollars flew the alumni, through the brand name of the school for the university. on the backs of these kids. and half the time they don't even know how to read. >> let me get jonathan in here. >> what about the cheerleaders? they are a big part

it is interesting that the united steelworkers were the ones backing the players. >> you mentioned you a northwestern alum. were there any rumblings of this when you were in school? washere were not, but that a long time ago. >> megan hughes in washington. good to see you again. for more on what this landmark ruling means, mark from the hospitality and tourism joins me. change college athletes in the united states? >> without question. we are talking about college athletes finally getting compensation besides having scholarships. first and foremost, what we are going to be looking at is a whole compensation scale, which we have never had a discussion about before. now we are looking at sponsorship money, television revenue being split up possibly going forward. >> layers bring in billions to universities but they don't see a penny. the ncaa is not going out without a fight. is the ncaa making a 20th century argument here? how can an entity continue to gain wealth from the unpaid labor of others. whether they are student-athletes or not, we are talking about a question of labor. >> with

employees may be willing to help athletes at those public schools in the same way that the united steelworkers help the player association in the case against north winter. two, this ruling confirms that northwestern and other schools and conference whose participate in college football, are engaged in interstate commerce. and this is huge, because of the first threshold needed for an antitrust challenge. finally, it is undisputed that the program sells merchandise such as football jerseys. the ncaa continues to deny that the jerseys represents the likeness of actual player as claim that directly conflicts with the opinion that finds northwestern profited from the sale that was linked to individual players. so now, you have opened up the process of how these kids can get extra benefits and get paid because of what the other schools and conferences are making off of them. ripple effect, ripple effect. the supreme court established the idea of amateur status. one result of that is that athletes can't as michael just mentioned have jobs while under scholarship. the ncaa says donors and boosters m

the peat was filed by the players association with the backing of the united steelworkers union. the ruling means player can move forward in organizing with the association's stated goals of guarantees coverage of sports-related medical expenses for current and former players, and better procedures to reduce head injuries. joining mess is ellen strawuski. thank you for your time. >> good morning. first after, i heard that i education is paid for, in some cases more than $100,000 and that's the fair exchange for that relationship. your response to that? >> i think what's at issue here is we have a college industry that's been built on the labor of athletes for many, many years, and what this ruling affirms is the athletes are employees and they have certain rights under that status. one of the things we see in the college sport industry is huge inequities between who benefits from the labor of those athletes versus what goes directly to the athletes who have produced the revenue. so i think this is a very, very important ruling, and wen that levels the playing field in terms of al

case was brought to the labor relations board by the college athletes players association, the united steelworkerson and cain colter, former quarterback for the northwestern wildcats. the ruling found, quote, players receiving scholarships to perform football-related services for the employer under a contract for hire in return for compensation are subject to the employer's control and are therefore, employees. the employer, of course, being northwestern university. here's the labor board's reasoning. quote, it cannot be said the employer's scholarship players are primarily students. the players spend 50 to 60 hours per week on their football duties during a one-month training camp prior to the start of the academic year. and an additional 40 to 50 hours per week on those duties during the three or four-month football season. not only is this more hours than many undisputed full-time employees work at their jobs, it is also many more hours than the players spend on their studies. northwestern university has until april 9 to file an appeal. a statement released by the school says, quote, northweste

i think this is being underwritten by the united steelworkers union, right?they see is a tremendous windfall in money over the last several years, based on these billion dollar tv contracts and so forth and they wan a piece of that. i think where the ncaa made a mistake in my opinion was, for example, like johnny manziel wanted to make some money marketing and merchandising some products, right, at texas a&m? they should have let him do that. they should let athletes do that. that doesn't cost the school any money and would not detract from taking money from other programs that don't generate the revenue that college football and basketball do. i mean one of the things is, you don't hear a lot of the be female athletes coming out in support of this, along with the other lawsuits that are going on by the way, regarding how much money college athletes should get because potentially this could detract from their sports. big-time college football and big-time college batket ball funds everything. that's right. adam: let me ask you this question, will it destroy w

here is the president of united steelworkers international leo gerard with oil analyst at fox news contributorl flynn. let me start with you. it seems exporting crude oil would create more jobs. more drilling, more pumping, more pipelines to build that oil to ship out, seems like it would be good for your membership. why not? >> whoever is saying that is totally wrong. the fact is the best job for our membership is to continue drilling for gas and oil and continue fighting it here. the fact is we should be refining the lawyer. and it is america first and america's energy advantage goes there to have lower cost oil. cheryl: would you think. >> by exporting more oil it opens the door for more, trying to say we should be the new opec in the rest of the world, it is short-term thinking. at the end of the day the best thing we can do for america is be the energy hub to the world. no matter what happens we will be one of the biggest consumers. we are on the way to being the biggest producer, one of the biggest refiners and it will be more efficient. melissa: prices of gone up slightly because we hav

the united steelworkers. >> well, i think these athletes better be careful what they wish for.d employees, they will then have to pay federal taxes, have to pay state taxes, pay union dues. i think they may realize they had a better deal getting a $75,000 a year scholarship untaxed than having to pay taxes. >> juan, i can see it. collective bargaining, guys on the field saying you know what, coach, it's hot. look at my contract here. it says i don't have to practice in 100-degree heat. come on. collective bargaining for college kids? >> oh, gee, you guys sound like you are back in the 70s and arguing about whether or not there should be rights for baseball players and football players. that's what happened there. let me say if you don't think that what's going on is a business you're fooling yourself. they raise billions of dollars flew the alumni, through the brand name of the school for the university. on the backs of these kids. and half the time they don't even know how to read. >> let me get jonathan in here. >> what about the cheerleaders? they are a big part of that fan

electric institute endorse it, the nuclear industry dow chemical dupont united auto workers united steelworkers dow corning applied materials utility workers all the way down the line. we had the industry on our side. the chamber of commerce wasn't with us, no question about it. i like who we have. i don't think the edison electric institute was with us. i think they understood where we have to go to could are checked the climate in greenhouse gases by the year 2015. so this is a further extension of what's going on. the oil industry is pushing to reverse four decades of law prohibiting the export of american crude oil so that our crude oil can be shipped to china. there is a crude oil band right now. they want it lifted. as we debated here yesterday the natural gas industry is pushing to use the crisis in ukraine as a basis for unleashing natural gas exports to china because that's where it's going. it's 15 bucks in china they pay in only 10 bucks in europe. who do you think exxon is going to send it to? to china. imagine the mantra of the chamber of commerce ,-com,-com ma drill here, drill no

in dorset, the nuclear energy is too endorsed it, general electric and dow chemical, dupont, united steelworkers, applied materials, utility workers all the way down the line. we have industry on our side of the chamber of commerce was one. i like to we had. i don't think the edison electric institute was of it ridiculous. they understood where we have to go to protect the climate this is an extension. the oral industry is pushing to reverse four decades of law prohibiting the export of american crude oil so that our crude oil can be shipped to china. the crude oil ban right now. they want to lift it. as we debated yesterday, the natural gas industry is pushing to use the crisis in ukraine as a basis for unleashing natural -- natural gas exports. fifteen bucks in china. ten bucks in europe to be ready you think exxon mobile will send it? to china. the mantra of the chamber of commerce five years ago drill here, drawn-out will pay less as morton to drill here, exports to china, pay more year in the united states as we export our own natural resources. that is what it is more often to we are suppo

usw, united steelworkers. >> thanks for that correction. bad read on prompter there on my part.nfidence it turns into a long lasting ruling? >> i am extremely confident this is going the withstand the challenges from northwestern. if you take a close look at the -- we sat through a hear for four or five days, extensive record was developed for the regional director to make his decision, and the decision was pretty concrete. frankly, it's a pretty simple case. it's not as complicated as everyone is making it out to be. the main question being, are college football players at northwestern university employees the university, do they work, do they get paid? yes. do they get disciplined? yes. are they told when to show up for work? yes. how long to work? yes. all the things that go right down the line of determining legally whether someone is an employee and whether there's an employee/employer relationship. we feel very confident that this ruling, knowing it's going to be appealed and go to d.c., we feel very, very confident this is going to withstand that appeal. >> tim, it applie

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