Action request: Help the Underdogs Pull off the Upset

This action request is from the Communication Workers of America:

This time of year, much attention is being paid to college superstars on the court. CBS paid the NCAA $6 billion to air the NCAA tournament. College coaches enjoy six and seven figure salaries. College athletes are taken care of by universities while getting their education--or are they?

College athletes who have worked hard on the court and in the classroom are often left to foot the bill for medical expenses from sports-related injuries, have their scholarships taken away for any reason, and often find themselves scrambling to make ends meet when scholarship funds fall short of the real cost of school--all while the NCAA generates billions from their talent.

These exploited workers do not yet have the right to form a union; but there is one organization giving college athletes a voice. The National College Players Association (NCPA) is the only group working to change these injustices. The NCPA is made up of 10,000 current and former college athletes and has already achieved significant victories nationwide.

NCPA fights for basic protections like making sure college athletes can get the education they've been promised and have worked so hard for.

Speak up against a multi-billion dollar industry that refuses to put promises made to workers in writing, pay for on-the-job injuries, or can revoke your salary at anytime, without reason.

Join unions and fans of college sports in signing a petition that will go to the NCAA and its three top corporate sponsors: Pontiac (GM), AT&T and Coke. Let them know that a fraction of these billions of dollars in sponsorship money should be used to provide basic protections to college athletes.

Speak up and sign the petition here.