HANOVER, N.H. — Dartmouth won’t enter into collective bargaining with the union its males’s basketball gamers voted to hitch earlier this month, the college stated Monday in a transfer that would ship the case to federal court docket.
In a press release asserting its refusal to cut price a labor cope with the athletes, the college was adamant that it believes “athletes within the Ivy League usually are not staff.”
A regional director of the Nationwide Labor Relations Board dominated final month that Dartmouth basketball gamers have been staff, clearing the way in which for them to vote to hitch the union.
The gamers then voted 13-2 to hitch the Service Staff Worldwide Union Native 560.
“Given Dartmouth’s decades-long dedication to athletics as an extension of our tutorial mission, we consider the regional director has made a unprecedented mistake find these college students are staff,” the college stated in its assertion, which referred to as the gamers “college students whose instructional program contains athletics.”
Dartmouth is asking for a assessment of the regional director’s choice by the complete board.
“From a procedural standpoint, if the complete NLRB refuses to overturn the regional director’s choice, Dartmouth’s solely remaining choice to problem this authorized error is to interact in a technical refusal to cut price, an unprecedented step in our lengthy historical past of labor negotiations,” the college stated. “It will possible lead to SEIU Native 560 submitting an unfair labor observe cost with the NLRB, which we’d attraction. That is the one lever Dartmouth has to get this matter reviewed by a federal court docket.”