Unionizing Student Athletes Called ‘Existential Threat’ by GOP

Republicans and university athletics representatives testifying at a House panel sounded alarms about college athletes organizing in the wake of Dartmouth College’s men’s basketball team’s historic vote to unionize with the Service Employees International Union.

As March Madness drives massive crowds to college basketball games, lawmakers discussed whether student athletes should be classified as employees in a joint hearing held by two House Education and the Workforce subcommittees Tuesday.

While Congress has held several hearings over the past few years on name, image, and likeness rights for college athletes, the subject of employee classification had been less formally debated. But ...