Why an Ivy League Basketball Team Voted to Unionize

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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This week the Dartmouth men’s basketball team voted to unionize, setting up a fight with the school over whether its athletes are students or employees. WSJ’s Laine Higgins talks about how this move upends decades of NCAA precedent and could change college sports forever. Further Listening: - A League of Champions Implodes - A Tipping Point for Paying College Athletes? Further Reading: - Dartmouth Basketball Players Vote to Unionize in New Challenge to NCAA’s Amateurism Model - Dartmouth Men’s Basketball Team Makes Latest Bid for Unionization by College Athletes - College Sports Powers Stall Bid to Share Revenue With Athletes in California Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is March
0:05.0	March Madness.
0:09.0	Indeed.
0:11.0	Are you into that?
0:12.0	Oh, absolutely. I mean, March Madness is arguably the best post-season tournament that exists in all of sports.
0:18.0	I mean, college basketball is delightfully nutty and that's why March Madness is so wonderful.
0:24.0	Where does Dartmouth rank?
0:27.0	Near the bottom, if not at the bottom.
0:29.0	They haven't had a winning record since the 1998-99 season.
0:33.9	And I believe this year they've finished the regular season
0:37.4	and they won six total games.
0:40.3	Out of how many?
0:41.8	27.
0:44.0	Dartmouth's basketball team may be close to last in their conference,
0:48.0	but this week they became the first college athletes
0:52.0	to do something monumental.
0:55.0	Unionize.
0:57.0	It's the dawn of a new day at Dartmouth.
1:00.0	After the men's basketball team voted 13 to 2 to become part of a union.
1:07.0	Our colleague Lane Higgins covers college sports and we spoke with her about this vote at Dartmouth.
1:14.7	It was a pretty overwhelming yes from the Dartmouth basketball team.
1:19.4	What's their goal?
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