Romeo Myrthil #20 (C) of the Dartmouth Big Green watches as his team play against Columbia Lions in their NCAA men's basketball game on February 16, 2024 in New York City.
The Dartmouth Men's Basketball team voted 13-2 in favor of becoming the first-ever labor union for college athletes on Tuesday afternoon.
The vote could present a huge shakeup to the National Collegiate Athletics Association's (NCAA) model, which currently only allows college athletes to financially benefit from their role on teams through name, image and likeness.
"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 within the meaning of the [National Labor Relations] Act," Sacks said in a statement.
This isn't the first time a college athletics team has made a bid to be recognized as employees.
Persons:
Romeo Myrthil, Laura Sacks, Sacks, Michael L, Huyghue, We've, Dartmouth, Cade Haskins, Haskins
Organizations:
Dartmouth Big Green, Columbia Lions, NCAA, Dartmouth Men's Basketball, National Collegiate Athletics Association's, National Labor Relations Board, Regional, Dartmouth, Dartmouth men's, National Labor Relations, NLRB, Cornell Sports, Supreme, NBC News, NBC, Northwestern University's
Locations:
New York City