Dartmouth Union Vote Sparks New Student Athlete Bargaining Ideas

The increasing possibility that college athletes will be considered employees in the near future is threatening the traditional amateur model as lawyers and other observers struggle to envision what the new landscape will look like.

Classifying players as employees under the National Labor Relations Act would require colleges, universities, and their athletic governing bodies to share revenue with players and bargain with them over pay and working conditions.

Cade Haskins, a member of the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team that became the first college sports team to unionize earlier this month, said at the time that he wants benefits ...