The Dartmouth men’s basketball team, represented by attorney John Krupski of the Service Employees International Union, Local 560 of Concord, N.H, made the case that they’re employees during a National Labor Relations Board pre-election hearing on Thursday.
Presided over by NLRB hearing officer Eric Duryea, the hearing lasted all day and is the first in what will likely be several days of proceedings. The hearings center on whether the players are employees under the National Labor Relations Act. Laura Sacks, director of the NLRB’s regional office in Boston, Mass., will decide that question, the answer for which will likely be appealed by the losing side to the NLRB in Washington, D.C., and potentially in federal courts. It could take years to play out.
Attorneys Joe McConnell and Ryan Jaziri argued for Dartmouth, which insists the players are student-athletes and not employees.
On behalf of the players, Christopher Peck, the president of SEIU Local 560 and a master painter who works at Dartmouth, testified. He mentioned he recently organized visitor service guides at a museum owned by Dartmouth. Peck explained the kinds of activities a union can take on behalf of university employees. He gave an example involving the union objecting to the firing of a Dartmouth employee who was arrested for DUI. The union objected because Dartmouth allegedly wasn’t consistent in determining whether an employee gets fired for that type of offense. Under labor law, the need for consistency...
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