Punching In: Dartmouth College Players’ Union Election Nears

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers.

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Parker Purifoy: Dartmouth College is asking the National Labor Relations Board to delay a unionization election among the men’s basketball team while it challenges the athletes’ employee status.

The college filed a motion Feb. 29 to stay the election currently scheduled for Tuesday, and asked to expedite its appeal of a decision from an NLRB regional director that ruled the basketball players were employees under federal labor law.

If the election is allowed to proceed, the Dartmouth players will be the first collegiate athletes ever to have their ...