MLB And MLBPA Seek Exemptions From State Wage And Hour Laws Learn about recent laws exempting minor league baseball players from wage laws and MLB's efforts to seek further exemptions. Top News · Mar 14, 2024
MLBPA’s Tony Clark admitted that the union is frustrated over the new Fanatics-produced Nike uniforms Players HATE the new MLB uniforms. USA Today Sports Media Group · Feb 20, 2024
Arguments Over Ohtani-Like Deferred Contracts Are Nothing New Shohei Ohtani’s $700 million deal with the Dodgers will be mostly deferred, a practice that has stirred up baseball conversations since the 1980s. Sports Illustrated · Dec 13, 2023
MLB Might Eliminate Its Most Controversial Rule Ahead of next season, the MLB Joint Competition Committee has proposed several key changes to the game. Sports Illustrated · Nov 30, 2023
Players Choice Awards: Cody Bellinger wins NL Comeback Player of the Year The MLBPA revealed the winners of the Players Choice Awards on Thursday. Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 2, 2023
Adam Wainwright Adorably Cited His New Puppy As the Reason for His Retirement The pitcher received a special gift from the Cardinals earlier this month. Sports Illustrated · Oct 31, 2023
Minor League Baseball Unionization One Year Later: ’Now We Just Get to Play Baseball’ Players will be paid over the offseason for the first time in a game-changing and life-changing shift. Sports Illustrated · Sep 15, 2023
Air quality concerns delay Pirates game, cause tempers to flare between players, MLB Baseball has often been described as a kids game. Tribune News Service · Jun 30, 2023
Minor Leaguers Reach First-Ever Collective Bargaining Agreement, per Report The players’ salaries are expected to at least double after a historic agreement was reportedly reached Wednesday. Sports Illustrated · Mar 30, 2023
Minor league baseball players are reportedly set to get a huge pay raise with historic CBA and fans are thrilled This pay raise is a long time coming for Minor League Baseball! USA Today Sports Media Group · Mar 30, 2023
Scoop: Dominican Republic snags first MLB players union office outside U.S. The announcement comes as the league and union work to enhance their presence in the Caribbean and Latin America. Axios · Dec 5, 2022
Report: MLB Investigating Mets, Yankees for Colluding With Judge’s Free Agency Any effort to suppress the slugger’s free-agent value would be considered a violation of baseball’s collective bargaining agreement. Sports Illustrated · Nov 17, 2022
Aaron Judge Voted Player of the Year by MLB Peers The Yankees slugger will hope that the honor is a sign of a more prestigious award to come. Sports Illustrated · Nov 5, 2022
The Minor Leaguers Who Sprung a Union on MLB Players were already fuming over their treatment. Enter a motley crew of career minor leaguers with a plan. Sports Illustrated · Sep 22, 2022
Salon · Sep 10, 2022 Labor battle with Minor League Baseball? The grueling life of a minor leaguer has bocame the stuff of legend, explored in films like "Bull Durham"
Sports Illustrated · Sep 9, 2022 Manfred: MLB Prepared to Recognize Minor League Players Union The MLBPA sent out union authorization cards to minor leaguers last month.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 9, 2022 The Good, the Bad and the Meh of MLB’s Rule Changes Regular readers of this newsletter know I disagree with Rob Manfred frequently. His handling of MLB labor issues is callous, and at best, he is an awkward public speaker. His treatment of minor leaguers is inhumane, and he has mishandled multiple baseball cheating scandals. For all of these ...
WEKU · Sep 6, 2022 More than half of minor league baseball players have voted to unionize Most minor league players make less than the federal poverty line. The Major League Baseball Players Association has asked MLB to voluntarily recognize the unionizing efforts.
Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 6, 2022 MLBPA asks baseball management to accept union for minor leaguers The MLBPA, which reached its first collective bargaining agreement for major leaguers in 1968, launched the minor league unionization drive on Aug. 28.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 6, 2022 MLBPA Has Majority Support for Minor League Union The MLBPA needed over 50% of players to sign the authorization cards in order to ask MLB for voluntary recognition.
The Conversation · Sep 5, 2022 America's next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball When the Major League Baseball Players Association sent union authorization cards to approximately 5,000 minor league players in an attempt to unionize them, I was both surprised and not surprised at all.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 2, 2022 Five Things to Follow Five Weeks Before the Playoffs In five weeks, we’ll be watching playoff baseball. Because of the new 12-team postseason format, this is the first year in which there will be four best-of-three Wild Card Series, two in the AL and two in the NL, as opposed to the single one-and-done game in each league. This…
Sports Illustrated · Aug 30, 2022 MLBPA’s Efforts to Unionize Minor Leagues Didn’t Happen Overnight In an interview with SI, Tony Clark discussed the push to represent minor leaguers and what it could mean for baseball.
Los Angeles Times · Aug 30, 2022 Bill Shaikin: Rob Manfred is a labor lawyer. Now minor leaguers could unite against MLB. 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.
Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 30, 2022 Cubs MLPBA rep Ian Happ weighs in on push to unionize minor-leaguers The MLBPA announced it launched a campaign to unionize minor-league players after receiving “overwhelming support” from its executive board Sunday.