Members of the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team congregated at the stately Hanover Inn near campus on a dreary, drizzly Tuesday and walked over to a small office building where they smiled for a group photo. Then they went up to a second-floor conference room and took a vote that had been six months — or rather, many years — in the making. When the yellow sheets of paper were tallied and certified about an hour later, the basketball players had accomplished something no other college athletes had done.
By a 13-2 vote, they had formed a union.
“It’s definitely becoming more real,” Cade Haskins, a junior on the basketball team and a leader of the effort, said to about a dozen reporters after the vote. “We know this could potentially be making history. That wasn’t the reason we were doing it, but to do that can be scary and daunting.”
Haskins expressed hope that his peers across the Ivy League and the rest of the country would soon be recognized as employees under federal labor law — a classification that has been a red line for college sports leaders who would be forced to share revenue directly with athletes...
Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/dartmouth-basketball-union-athletes-employees.html.
As we have previously noted, UC is not covered by the NLRB. But it is covered by a statute which is similar in many ways to that covering the private sector and the state's PERB could look at the Dartmouth example as a precedent.
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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2024/03/players-as-employees-part-2.html.
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