After a settlement between the NCAA and a class of current and former college athletes, students have finally won their largest demand: they will be paid via a revenue-sharing agreement, should a judge approve it.
Amid mounting pressure from labor activists and legislators, the NCAA and its partners settled the class-action suit with a $2.7 billion dollar sum and a payment model moving forward, but labor organizers say they don’t expect a cooling-off of their efforts to unionize student athletes around the country, who generate over a billion dollars in annual revenue.
