The Dartmouth College men’s basketball team overwhelmingly voted to unionize, moving one step closer to being the first labor union for NCAA college athletes.
The vote was announced on Tuesday, with the 15-man roster voting 13-2 in favor of joining Service Employees International Union Local 560, which already represents other Dartmouth employees. Despite the vote, there are obstacles down the road for the team’s effort to unionize.
“Today is a big day for our team,” players Cade Haskins and Romeo Myrthil said, according to the Associated Press. “We stuck together all season and won this election. It is self-evident that we, as students, can also be both campus workers and union members. Dartmouth seems to be stuck in the past. It’s time for the age of amateurism to end.”
The players’
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