There is no U in team. Unions are bad for student athletes

Look for the union label on your local college sports team? Labor unions are starting to unionize college athletes, but that's bad for the students and their teams.

But unions ignore the intangibles of being a student athlete. The best teams at the best schools — think the University of Alabama football team — operate similarly to professionals in many ways. But most college teams don’t, even if the athletes take their sport seriously, like I did.   Akash Chougule is vice president of Americans for Prosperity and a former professional staff member on the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce. 

Unionization, as the argument goes, would have created a more professional environment, protecting athletes like me from exploitation. Even if I had received a scholarship, unions would have argued that I needed a defense from coaches and administrators who wanted to profit from my hard work.