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Dartmouth basketball unionized. Will other schools follow?

Thursday, March 14th • Segment

By a vote of 13 to 2, the players agreed to become members of Service Employees International Local 560, which also represents workers at the Ivy League school. They are now eligible to bargain with the college administration for pay and other benefits — a first that could again challenge the fiercely debated position taken by most universities that college athletes are amateurs, not paid professionals.