The union representing the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team has filed an unfair labor practice complaint against the Ivy League school for refusing to bargain with the players, who in March became the first U.S. college athletes to unionize.
The Service Employees International Union Local 560, which represents other workers at Dartmouth, filed the complaint with the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday. Calls to a phone number listed for the union’s representative in the complaint file on the NLRB’s website were not answered.
Members of the basketball team voted 13-2 to unionize on March 5 after NLRB Regional Director Laura Sacks ruled that the players were employees of the prestigious school in Hanover, New Hampshire. Later that month, Dartmouth declined to enter a collective bargaining agreement with the players.
