The Dartmouth men’s basketball team will begin its 2023-24 season Monday night by playing No. 2 ranked Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C.
The Blue Devils are favored to win big. Betting lines place them as 23.5-point favorites.
From a sports standpoint, the game might not be memorable.
From a legal standpoint, the fact that the matchup is even happening is what matters.
Big Green players are taking on the Blue Devils—one of the most iconic and commercially successful teams in college sports.
The Ivy League team from New Hampshire does so as it pursues recognition as unionized employees.
Represented by attorney John Krupski of the Service Employees International Union, Local 560 of Concord, N.H, the players argued in a recent National Labor Relations Board pre-election hearing that they’re both students and employees of a school that generates considerable attention and enhances fundraising efforts through these players’ labor. It’s also a school that employs some classmates and negotiates terms of employment with their union.
The players need to convince Laura Sacks, director of the NLRB’s regional office in Boston, Mass., to order a union election. Her decision could arrive any day. If Sacks sides with the players, her decision will set in motion a process that could eventually lead to college athletes at private colleges across the U.S. gaining employee recognition.
Conversely, Sacks could side with Dartmouth College, which was primarily represented in the...
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