January 28th 2022
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On December 2nd, the collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association expired, allowing the league to impose a lockout as the two sides were unable to complete an agreement before the deadline. It is baseball’s first...
One need not look far to identify the toxic workplace cultures that seem to inevitably exist among professional sports organizations. On this blog, we’ve previously covered the Chicago Blackhawks’ failure to adequately handle an allegation of sexual misconduct, the...
Last week, Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden resigned after emails he had written containing racist, homophobic, and misogynistic remarks were made public. The emails emerged as part of the workplace culture investigation that the NFL had been conducting into...
On September 29, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum outlining her position that student-athletes, or “Players at Academic Institutions,” are employees under the NLRA. “My intent in issuing this memo,” Abruzzo wrote, “is to help educate the...
With the wide distribution of the vaccine, new COVID-19 protocols negotiated by the professional leagues and their union counterparts are drawing a stark line between vaccinated and unvaccinated players. In the NBA, unvaccinated players are subject to a host of...
May 25, last week, was the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. Professional athletes marked the occasion by advocating for the passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, building on the collective political action jumpstarted during last year’s...
Yesterday was a slow news day in the labor world, as many workers – including the journalists who write about labor and make these posts possible – enjoyed a well earned day off after a difficult, exhausting year. But many workers still make the fun the rest of us...
Unprecedented collective action by NBA players has changed the narrative across the entire professional sports landscape, centering the focus on racial reform in the wake of this week’s shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed black man. After a boycott of Wednesday’s...
The $600 CARES Act unemployment benefit ends today, leaving millions of Americans in jeopardy. Though Senate Republicans and the White House have insisted that the $600 benefit discourages Americans from working, a new study by Yale economists tells a different...
This past Wednesday, a group of about 50 Uber drivers staged a protest outside Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi’s house. According to Forbes, the protesters blasted labor-friendly music and held up a banner reading, “A Thief Lives Here” in front of the $17 million...
In a piece entitled “What Do Unions Do in a Pandemic,” Jared recently highlighted how unions—across various industries including healthcare, food processing, meatpacking, hospitality, airline, and higher-education—have responded to COVID-19. One noteworthy sector...
Covid-19 has been particularly destructive to millennials, according to Vox. Younger workers are more fragile to economic losses, as they have less wealth cushion and work experience than older workers. Because millennials are more diverse than previous...