Here's an interesting thing on the wire. The Darthmouth College men's college basketball team has filed with the NLRB for a union election. If they're allowed to unionize and win their election, they intend to join SEIU Local 560. They'd be the first college athletics union that I'm aware of—a significant development as collegiate athletics continue to professionalize and students are increasingly allowed to make money off of their likeness—and are likely to shake up a rapidly changing world of sports. Of course, whether they can is an interesting question—one that doesn't appear to be settled yet, and which might take years to definitively conclude.
Historically, the NLRB has been skeptical to the right of student athletes to unionize: as Insider notes: Northwestern University's football team attempted to unionize in 2014 and was unanimously disallowed from doing so because it "would not serve to promote stability in labor relations." But in recent years the NLRB has turned to the left on this matter. In 2021 an NLRB memo concluded college athletes as employees; and earlier this year the NLRB took the step of filing an unfair labor practice against the University of Southern California, the Pac-12 conference, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Dartmouth has already made it clear they will appeal for a variety of reasons—not least of which is because of its potential to completely upend the already chaotic situation of student athletics. As I noted in the above post, though, the current composition of the NLRB is much more favorable to the idea of student athlete unionization than the body has ever been. It's very possible that the full panel of the NLRB upholds the finding and that this case is ultimately the one that strikes a death blow to the current system of student athletics.