New York CNN —Basketball players at Dartmouth will get a chance to vote on whether to join a union, a potential breakthrough in efforts to unionize the lucrative business of college sports.
The NLRB’s regional director in Boston ruled that because Dartmouth “has the right to control the work performed by the Dartmouth men’s basketball team, and the players perform that work in exchange for compensation, I find that the petitioned-for basketball players are employees.”Dartmouth will challenge the finding, Dartmouth President Sian Beilock told CNN Tuesday.
We believe our athletes are students,” she told Poppy Harlow on CNN This Morning.
Professional sports is one of the most heavily unionized sectors of the economy, with athletes in all four major team sports played in the United States being union members.
But there is less a question that those students are employees, since they receive W-2 forms and pay as their compensation.
Persons:
Dartmouth “, ”, Sian Beilock, “, Poppy Harlow
Organizations:
New, New York CNN — Basketball, Dartmouth, National Labor Relations Board, Dartmouth men’s, ” Dartmouth, CNN, Employees International Union, NLRB, Northwestern University
Locations:
New York, Boston, United States