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Losing for Winning: Dartmouth Basketball Team’s Ill-Fated Unionization Effort

Foley & Lardner LLP on 10/22/2024

The Dartmouth men’s basketball team is scheduled to tip-off its 2024-25 NCAA season. Not surprisingly, they will do so without a labor contract, notwithstanding the team’s historic vote last March to unionize under federal...more

Dartmouth Basketball Players Vote to Unionize after NLRB Declares Them Employees

Franczek P.C. on 3/19/2024

In a historic election on March 5, 2024, the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team voted 13-2 to unionize. The vote took place exactly one month after an NLRB regional director ruled that Dartmouth men’s basketball players...more

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

Dartmouth men’s basketball players are employees, NLRB Regional Director says

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 2/9/2024

In a February 5 decision, Laura A. Sacks, the Regional Director for Region 01 of the National Labor Relations Board, concluded that the men’s basketball student-athletes for Dartmouth College are employees for purposes of 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

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