WWE’s issued a mandate that banned Superstars from using third party sites to earn money. This let to some Superstars being in support of unionization. With a new focus on it by Andrew Yang and others, it might just become a reality.
Eric Bischoff is well aware of unionization, which sounds like a “silver bullet” that will fix the situation. On his 83 Weeks podcast, Bischoff said that unionizing WWE Superstars might have some negative ramifications as well.
“There is no statute of limitations on back taxes. Can you imagine the fines and the penalties that could possibly exist if the independent contractor status of WWE is challenged? And WWE has to go back the last 20 or 30 years based on the number of talent fees that they paid out and have to go back and pay social security and all kinds of other taxes and fines associated with it? And then comes the civil litigation. ‘Yeah, unionization sounds so great, and it’s like this silver bullet that cures all evils’ – but it’s really not, it can create a lot of evils and it can ultimately come back and put talent at a much greater disadvantage.”
If a judgment is passed by a Court of law, then even WWE will not be able to do anything about it. We will have to see what happens next.
