I’m not saying they don’t work hard but that their 40 hours isn’t the same as going into the office for 40 hours per week or working construction for 40 hours. The 40 hours includes commuting and eating. My daughter didn’t include ‘commuting’ to the field house or the field or the gym, just like if she went to class 15 hours a week it wouldn’t include the walk there or having to jump on the cross campus bus.
How many of those 40 hours are spent on a practice field? How many are spent sleeping in a hotel or eating or doing the same things they’d be doing if they were in their dorm rooms (video games, watching movies, on their phones)? I didn’t include those in my daughter’s average of 3 hours per day off season or 30-40 in the busiest week in season (for her spring break week).
But if you include it all, I want credit for the 2 hours a day I used to commute to work, 1 hour for lunch, reading industry stuff on my own time…pretty much worked 80 hours a week and I want my union to recognize that.