Posts tagged college sports
Greg Sankey addresses potential of unionizing among student-athletes after House settlement passing
June 17, 2025 // Evidently, Sankey wouldn’t understand why student-athletes would want to unionize, especially with the perks they’re receiving following this settlement. Time will tell if the SEC Commissioner is right or if student-athletes try to flip the script. One thing is for sure: this is a new era of college sports.
Dartmouth basketball team votes to unionize, rattling college sports
March 7, 2024 // The team’s 13-2 vote to join SEIU Local 560 is a massive achievement for the long-percolating campaign to upend college sports, and one that could motivate others to follow suit. “It is self-evident that we, as students, can also be both campus workers and union members,” teammates Cade Haskins and Romeo Myrthil, who helped lead the organizing effort, said in a statement Tuesday. “It’s time for the age of amateurism to end.”