Posted on 03/05/2024 11:24:55 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Dartmouth University’s men’s basketball team voted to unionize on Tuesday, bringing them one step closer to becoming the first collegiate labor union.
The whole team participated in a 13-2 vote in favor of joining the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 560. The school will have until March 12 to file an objection to the union election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
After objections are filed, there will be 10 days for both parties to file a request for an appeal to the decision.
The school has already put out a statement emphasizing the athletes are not employees, so it doesn’t believe this union “is appropriate.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
“The school will have until March 12 to file an objection to the union election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).”
I’m facinated by the thinking here. The program is under control of Dartmouth, they control the facilities, the equipment, the scheduling, the transportation of the players, the uniforms, the staff from coaches to include medical, the delving of scholorship money, the housing of the players, the tutors to keep them in college, (people to take their tests for them), food they eat, beds they sleep in, towels for the showers, and the electricity to keep the lights on...lots more. Their biggest moneymaker that actually supports the sports programs is like everyone else...football.
So if the athletic department wants to save a little money and headaches, lock the gym doors and turn out the lights for the basketball floor. A lot of colleges are dropping programs due to cost. Why not. If you’re that important that you can join a union that can’t get you a raise in money you’re not supposted to be getting anyway, then you’re dumber than a box of rocks.
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College basketball will die, as the good players will either go straight to the NBA, or go to the EuroLeague.
With a union the team will have to have specific workers: dribblers who can only do that; shooters who can only do that; rebounders who can only do that; subs who can only sub for a specific job. It’ll be a mess.
Nobody can score more than 6 points a game or you make the weak players look weak. And nobody can get kicked off the team. Everyone will want to sit on the bench.
I think you are right
The era of a student athlete is over. College sports is now a business and it should be treated as a business of entertainment. Do people make donations to their grocery store?
“I am trying to understand who is on the hook to pay? Colleges can offer scholarships and living money, but they can’t outright pay players as in a wage.
The NCAA is now entirely feckless. What a mess.”
It’s worse than what you write:
True, these folks CANNOT receive pay. The SEIU can provide them union benefits BUT ONLY IF THEY PAY UNION DUES! How will they pay?
I was a member in good standing of the ILWU (Longshoreman Union) Local #37 for 5 years.
I was forced to join the union and pay union dues in order to work my summer job while in college (working in a salmon cannery on Bristol Bay, AK).
I am NOT a fan of unions...
Paid for their work. Seems legit to me. Propping up a multi-billion dollar industry on free labor has been immoral for a long time. It’s finally ending.
No, all because the idea of forbidding players from getting paid on any level was wrong. You can’t pay coaches millions then pretend it’s an amateur sport so you don’t pay the guys risking injury.
Stick it to the fake indoctrination schools make them pay you out the butt for fun
There’s been attempts to organize graduate students in the past. If there ever was a more put upon group in the university setting its graduate students. You can almost see the need.
Way back when I was in grad school, I was in a union the UMW - United Mineworkers. I made enough from mining to supplement my paltry stipend and live by myself. It was hard but I did it.
That was not my first union experience. In high school I was forced to join the grocer’s union to be able to gag, stack & stock groceries. The union dues & “flower fund” bit heavily into my pay.
I am not by any means a union fan!
Would be interesting to see how the DEI plays out.
Typo
gag = bag
Dartmouth is primarily a medical school. Undergrad being mostly premed.
They are closely associated with the Dartmouth/Hitchcock medical center.
Probably only second to Mass General in Boston as far premier New England medical schools.
The Northwestern University football team considered unionizing several years ago, until they received legal advice that if they unionized, they would be considered paid employees of the university. That meant that all of their scholarships, room & board, athletic meals, etc..., would be considered taxable income in the years in which they received it. The idea of unionizing was quickly dropped.
To the extent the Dartmouth players receive any kind of scholarship or other financial aid, I believe it would also be considered taxable income in the year it was received.
So much for Ivy League students being smart.
At least it gives a new meaning to MARCH MADNESS!!
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