Proposed Bill would allow UConn athletes to unionize

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http://adimeback.com/proposed-bill-would-allow-for-unionization-of-uconn-athletes/

Interesting to note the distinction made for the revenue being 4x what they "spend" on scholarships, since the question of how this sort of thing would affect non-revenue sports has come up a lot.

 

[CL82]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That the general statutes be amended to define a student of a public institution of higher education as an employee of such institution for the purposes of collective bargaining in accordance with the provisions of sections 5-270 to 5-280, inclusive, of the general statutes when the student (1) receives a scholarship from such institution or a foundation associated with such institution for not less than ninety per cent of the cost of tuition at such institution, (2) the scholarship is materially related to the student's expected participation in intercollegiate athletics, and (3) revenues generated by such institution in the prior academic year for the athletic program in which the student is expected to participate, when divided by the total number of students expected to participate in such athletic program, exceeds four hundred per cent of the value of such scholarship.