Last week, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for the recognition of 15 men’s basketball players at Dartmouth College as a union. Monday featured two significant developments: the Dartmouth players publicly expressed their rationales for seeking to unionize, and an advocate for college athletes filed an unfair labor practice charge against Dartmouth College.
Big Green players Cade Haskins and Romeo Myrthil wrote an op-ed published by the student paper, The Dartmouth, in which they explained why they and their teammates are pursuing a union. They note that the Ivy League, unlike other DI conferences, prohibits athletic scholarships (a policy currently being challenged in an antitrust lawsuit). From that lens, the athletes at Dartmouth already receive less compensation from the school in recognition of their athletic services than do their peers at many other DI schools.
Haskins and Myrthil write that many of their teammates “juggle part-time jobs” alongside their academic and athletic demands. In an argument that echoes Johnson v. NCAA, the players argue they should be paid hourly wages like their classmates who hold jobs on campus and should receive more money to cover expensive health insurance deductibles. The student dining services workers have unionized and recently negotiated a $21 per hour wage, nearly three times the federal and New Hampshire minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
The two players also...
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