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Dartmouth Basketball Players Vote to Be First College Athletes Represented by a Union

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/6/2024

On March 5, 2024, players on the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team voted to unionize, making the group the first college sports team to do so in the United States. Dartmouth College has already filed an appeal with the...more

NLRB Regional Director Determines Dartmouth Basketball Players Are Employees

BCLP on 2/7/2024

In a much-anticipated decision issued on Monday, February 5, 2024, Region 01 of the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB”) decided that the players on the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team qualify as employees...more

Could Leagues and Teams be Joint Employers Before the NLRB?

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 9/14/2022

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to change the standard for determining if two employers may be joint employers under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)....more

BREAKING: General Counsel Abruzzo Announces that College Athletes Are Employees

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 9/30/2021

Yesterday, General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a very significant memorandum on the status of college athletes as “employees” under the National Labor Relations Act. Statutory Rights of Players at Academic Institutions...more

The NLRB Throws a Flag on NCAA Division I Football and Explains Some Rules to Colleges and Universities

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/6/2017

In an official memorandum entitled “General Counsel’s Report on the Statutory Rights of University Faculty and Students in the Unfair Labor Practice Context,” the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Richard...more

NLRB Punts on College Athlete Unions

Miller Canfield on 8/18/2015

On August 17, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board issued the long awaited decision in the Northwestern University football union case. 362 NLRB No. 167 (8/17/2015). In a rare display of unanimity, the five members of...more

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