Opening the Ballot Box: Examining the Union Voting Behavior of Scholarship Football Players

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Labor Studies Journal Pub Date : 2024-06-02 DOI:10.1177/0160449x241255752

Patrick P. McHugh, Matthew Hinkel, Mark Hyman

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Abstract

Northwestern football players were the first college sports team to participate in a union certification election. The NLRB declined to assert jurisdiction and the ballots were not counted. This paper examines the nexus of factors influencing voting patterns at Northwestern based on both survey data and extensive interviews. The findings affirm and extend those from prior union voting behavior studies. Here, however, intersectionality of race and socio-economic status was a key factor. Voting also turned-on perceptions of employee status and what party or parties constituted management. Animosity toward the NCAA was close to unanimous while players were hesitant to shed negative light on Northwestern.

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打开投票箱：考察奖学金足球运动员的工会投票行为

西北大学橄榄球队员是第一支参加工会认证选举的大学运动队。全国劳资关系委员会拒绝行使管辖权，选票未被计算在内。本文基于调查数据和广泛的访谈，研究了影响西北大学投票模式的各种因素。研究结果肯定并扩展了之前的工会投票行为研究。然而，在这里，种族和社会经济地位的交叉性是一个关键因素。投票还取决于对雇员身份的看法以及哪一方或哪几方构成管理层。对 NCAA 的敌意几乎是一致的，而球员们则对西北大学的负面影响犹豫不决。

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Labor Studies Journal Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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1.50

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期刊介绍： The Labor Studies Journal is the official journal of the United Association for Labor Education and is a multi-disciplinary journal publishing research on work, workers, labor organizations, and labor studies and worker education in the US and internationally. The Journal is interested in manuscripts using a diversity of research methods, both qualitative and quantitative, directed at a general audience including union, university, and community based labor educators, labor activists and scholars from across the social sciences and humanities. As a multi-disciplinary journal, manuscripts should be directed at a general audience, and care should be taken to make methods, especially highly quantitative ones, accessible to a general reader.