The Dartmouth men’s basketball team has taken a historic first step in challenging the norms of college athletics, voting Tuesday to unionize. The team voted 13-2 to join Service Employees International Union Local 560, which already represents some of the school’s employees, in an election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board. The vote comes after college athletes began profiting off their name, image and likeness. However, schools are not legally required to pay their athletes.
The vote to unionize was met with immediate pushback from the school, but one expert says the school may be fighting a losing battle. Michael Schreck, the founder of the Collegiate Sports Management Group, says the vote could be a huge step forward for college athletes. 'You gotta give the kids credit for trying to do it. How does it get legitimized? I don’t know.
For Ivy League students who are varsity athletes, academics are of primary importance, and athletic pursuit is part of the educational experience,' the school said in a statement. 'Classifying these students as employees simply because they play basketball is as unprecedented as it is inaccurate. We, therefore, do not believe unionization is appropriate.' Fox News' Paulina Dedaj and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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