In September 2023, the Service Employees International Union Local 560 (SEIU) filed a petition for a representation election with Region 1 for a bargaining unit consisting of 15 Dartmouth College men’s basketball players. The SEIU petition is the first to include college student-athletes since 2015, when a union sought the same collective bargaining rights for Northwestern University football players. In Northwestern University, 362 NLRB 1350 (2015), the Regional Director for Region 13 of the NLRB determined that the football team’s scholarship players were employees under the Act.
