This is an expansion of the article originally published by Maynard Nexsen, “Collegiate Athletes Deemed “Employees” Under the NLRA: Dartmouth Basketball Players Cleared for Unionization Vote,” which can be seen linked here.
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On Feb. 5, the National Labor Relations Board Boston office director Laura Sacks issued a groundbreaking decision in Trustees of Dartmouth College.[1] Rejecting Dartmouth’s argument that the players are not “employees” under the NLRA, Sacks found Dartmouth’s men’s basketball team — which consists of 15 student-athletes — to be an appropriate unit under the NLRA, and directed that a union election be held.
Read full article on Law360 here.