Thanks to grassroots organizing, which much of the media is ignoring, minor leaguers will now join the Major League Players Association.
The MLBPA distributed the authorization cards in large part to demonstrate minor leaguers could clear that bar, and they are said to have done so easily.
The movement follows years of speculation that minor leaguers could unionize to address long-standing accusations of the unfair treatment of players, including wages that frequently fall below the federal minimum and subpar living conditions.
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When it comes to wages, baseball’s billionaires give stadium workers peanuts. Yet since 2011, the teams’ average value has tripled — from $523 million ($680 million in today’s dollars) to $2.1 billion.
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Robinson was a fierce competitor, an outstanding athlete and a deeply religious man. The aspect of his legacy that often gets glossed over is that he was also a radical with a long involvement with the civil rights movement.
Major League Baseball owners’ recent lockout was an effort to reverse the gains that players had won over decades of labor struggle. The owners failed.
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The MLB lockout displays a breathtaking level of cynicism.
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