The National Labor Relations Board today "certified a union" to represent Dartmouth basketball players after the deadline passed for the school to object to the election. Dartmouth players voted 13-2 on March 5 to join the Service Employees International Union Local 560 -- the first ever labor union for college athletes. The March 12 deadline was for "objections about the election process," but the school has also "appealed to the full board" an NLRB regional official’s decision that the players are school employees. Barring a successful appeal, the players and school will negotiate a CBA that would "cover working conditions such as salary, practice hours and health care benefits" (AP, 3/14).
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