The ongoing attention on WWE and Vince McMahon over the classification of their employees has started to reach attention they didn’t want to have. SAG President Gabrielle Carteris has offered her services to help, and Andrew Yang has reminded Vince he “hasn’t forgotten” about him.
On Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer got into this topic, and he mentioned Vega’s release could bring even further scrutiny into a situation already being focused on by a couple of important figures.
What he did mention, however, was that laws wouldn’t need to be changed for this to be fixed. All that would have to happen would be that WWE would have to be held to labor laws and codes that already exist. Vega’s talent and brand will be fine as she has an audience still that can follow her onto her new ventures, but her exit will give WWE a chance to explain their practices.
“It’s not the end of the world for her but the ramifications, especially right now, for WWE making the move right now, its a tricky one because they have people who are looking at them. This is an issue that’s been around for 40 years and how they get away with it because they are a small company in certain ways, they don’t employ a lot of people. Its not like FedEx, you know, and FedEx which is a way bigger company than WWE got hammered on this very same issue, but that’s because they’re a bigger, stronger company and they’re in the public eye. WWE really isn’t. But WWE’s completely violating the standards of what the difference is. I mean, its completely violating it. It’s not even a debatable point. I guess some people can debate it but I don’t see how you debate it. Some people are like ‘oh, they’re not going to introduce a new law, it has to go through two houses’ and it’s like no, you just have to enforce the code that’s already there and somebody should go look.”
The key thing WWE has used in defense of their third party ban is that not only are they defending the use of what they consider their intellectual property, but that they argue that despite not really being a direct competitor to Twitch, anything that takes attention away from them is competition to them. This story is really only starting to take shape, however, and what was once a laughable pipe dream could wind up being reality in the near future.
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