Posted on 01/01/2025 8:04:55 AM PST by Salman
The Dartmouth College basketball players who voted in March to unionize withdrew their petition on Tuesday, a move largely intended to preserve the favorable federal judgment that they had secured and that could have been in jeopardy once President-elect Donald J. Trump took office.
The players were the first college athletes granted the right to unionize by a federal labor official and the ensuing 13-to-2 vote by the men’s team in favor of forming a union seemed like a pivotal moment in the mounting legal challenges to the college sports model. But Dartmouth refused to negotiate with the players and appealed the ruling by the National Labor Relations Board regional director.
Now with Mr. Trump, a Republican, set to return to the White House in less than three weeks, the Service Employees International Union Local 560, which represents the Dartmouth players, recognized that a Republican-leaning N.L.R.B. might not be as friendly to their argument that the athletes should be classified as hourly workers just like other students who have jobs on campus.
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Want to end a career before it even starts? Unionize …assholes
The next great effort in “labor organizing” is “unionizing” graduate students! Why not athletes? “Big Labor” needs its cut of NLI money!
Whatever they can get.
Unions are for people too pussy to negotiate their own compensation.
It's almost funny how they want to blame everything on Trump.
SEIU is one of the Nastiest unions there is.
STARTED OUT AS A JANITOR’S UNION IN SO CALIF, IIRC
SCOTUS ruled 9-0 in favor of NIL.
That said, the average attendance in 2023 at Dartmouth men’s basketball games was 693 - compared to 19,873 at the University of Kentucky.
So I’m guessing whatever pay the Dartmouth players could get beyond NIL is minimal.
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