BOSTON — Men’s basketball players at Dartmouth College have grow to be the most recent faculty athletes to problem the established order by making an attempt to unionize.

A petition filed with the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday by the Service Employees International Union recognized 15 players from the Ivy League faculty as seeking illustration. The SEIU was listed because the petitioner, with Dartmouth College and its board of trustees recognized because the employer.

Dartmouth College spokesperson Jana Barnello offered an announcement to The Associated Press, confirming the petition had been filed seeking to characterize the players and declaring it was underneath evaluate. The petition has been assigned to NLRB’s Boston area, in accordance to the submitting’s on-line itemizing.

“We have the utmost respect for our students and for unions generally,” the assertion stated. “We are carefully considering this petition with the aim of responding promptly yet thoughtfully in accordance with Dartmouth’s educational mission and priorities.”

Northwestern University’s soccer staff made a bid to kind the primary union for faculty athletes in 2014.

It was a transfer that was met with virtually quick opposition by faculty conferences and colleges that argued it could essentially alter a system by which lots of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} are distributed yearly to conferences and colleges.

The transfer in the end led to August 2015 with the NLRB board ruling unanimously that creating a brand new system of union and nonunion faculty groups would lead to totally different requirements from faculty to faculty. It stated a system with diverse cash for players and issues like follow time would create aggressive imbalance.

That choice contrasted with an earlier choice by a regional NLRB in Chicago, which stated scholarship soccer players are workers underneath U.S. legislation and thus entitled to manage.

However, it didn’t present an opinion on whether or not players are workers of the faculties for which they play.

Michael McCann, director of the Sports and Entertainment Law Institute on the University of New Hampshire School of Law, wrote in a social media put up that it might take years for the case to in the end play out.

“There’s a good substantive legal argument many, though not all, college athletes are employees,” McCann wrote on X. “Dartmouth is probably not the ideal private school men’s team to try this given that they are not a major program and are Ivy League, where there are no athletic scholarships. … But Dartmouth student workers in dining services are already in a union, so from that lens is a good school.”