Articles for Minor League Players

Baseball Players Union Joins AFL-CIO In Show Of Solidarity With Other Workers
2 years, 3 months ago

Baseball Players Union Joins AFL-CIO In Show Of Solidarity With Other Workers

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Major League Baseball Players Association plans to join the AFL-CIO labor federation, putting one of professional sports’ top unions in a formal alliance with other labor groups. “Whether you’re working on the pitch or on a baseball field or on a construction site, we’re all concerned about safe workplaces.” - Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO …

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MLBPA wants to represent minor league baseball players
2 years, 3 months ago

MLBPA wants to represent minor league baseball players

LA Times  

Rob Manfred did not make his name in baseball as a former player, as a general manager or team president or team owner, or as a marketing or broadcasting executive. If enough minor league players agree, Manfred and the major league owners would no longer decide for themselves how much minor leaguers should be paid. “Poverty wages, oppressive reserve rules, …

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MLB to Congress: Without our antitrust exemption, players and fans lose
2 years, 4 months ago

MLB to Congress: Without our antitrust exemption, players and fans lose

LA Times  

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, shown in November, wrote to the Senate Judiciary Committee that players could lose job opportunities and communities could lose minor league teams if baseball is stripped of its antitrust exemption. Instead, players could lose job opportunities and communities could lose minor league teams, the league said in a 17-page letter to the committee exploring whether to …

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Senators ask MLB why antitrust exemption needed in minors
2 years, 5 months ago

Senators ask MLB why antitrust exemption needed in minors

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to explain the impact of potential legislation stripping the sport’s antitrust exemption from covering the sport’s relationship with minor league players. Senators asked about the potential impact of repealing 2018 legislation exempting minor league players from federal minimum wage and overtime laws — the Save …

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MLB to pay minor leaguers $185 million to settle lawsuit
2 years, 5 months ago

MLB to pay minor leaguers $185 million to settle lawsuit

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball agreed to pay minor leaguers $185 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging violations of minimum wage laws, a case that progressed through the courts for eight years without reaching a trial. “This settlement is a monumental step for minor league players toward a fair and just compensation system,” Garrett Broshuis, the players’ lead …

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Freedom, faster? California bill could limit how long MLB teams control minor leaguers
2 years, 9 months ago

Freedom, faster? California bill could limit how long MLB teams control minor leaguers

LA Times  

State Sen. Josh Becker said Tuesday he plans to introduce legislation that would require major league teams to grant a player freedom after four years in the minor leagues, instead of seven. Sen. Josh Becker said Tuesday he plans to introduce legislation that would require teams to grant a player freedom after four years in the minors instead of seven. …

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MLB decision to provide housing for minor leaguers was sparked by players themselves, could have ‘drastic impact’
3 years, 2 months ago

MLB decision to provide housing for minor leaguers was sparked by players themselves, could have ‘drastic impact’

New York Times  

To a leading voice in the push to reform baseball’s minor leagues, MLB’s decision to require teams to provide housing for minor-league players was a change sparked by the players themselves. “The culture around the minor leagues for decades has been one of silence, where players were expected to keep quiet and endure exploitative and frankly dehumanizing conditions,” said Harry …

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MLB to require teams to provide housing for minor-league players in ’22: Source
3 years, 2 months ago

MLB to require teams to provide housing for minor-league players in ’22: Source

New York Times  

Major League Baseball will require teams to provide housing for its minor-league players starting in 2022, a source confirmed to The Athletic, as first reported by ESPN. “This is a historic victory for Minor League baseball players,” said Advocates for Minor Leaguers executive director Harry Marino in a statement Sunday evening. “When we started talking to players this season about …

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‘A collective voice’: Group fighting for minor league player salaries, rights, enters next stage
3 years, 8 months ago

‘A collective voice’: Group fighting for minor league player salaries, rights, enters next stage

New York Times  

Harry Marino’s time as a minor leaguer was short, but long enough to be troubling. “About the antitrust exemption, about the true impact that MLB’s exploitative labor practices have on minor league players and on their families,” Marino said. But our view is that 100 players, a thousand players, 3,000 players speaking out, collectively, that’s a different story.” About 80 …

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U.S. Supreme Court allows minor league players’ class-action lawsuit to continue
4 years, 2 months ago

U.S. Supreme Court allows minor league players’ class-action lawsuit to continue

New York Times  

More than six years after Aaron Senne and other Minor League Baseball players brought a lawsuit against Major League Baseball over player pay, the case’s path to trial is clear. “Every other company out there can do it, then MLB can do it as well.” The Supreme Court’s decision comes at a time of great economic upheaval across Minor League …

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