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NBA's Trail Blazers Caught Red Handed
For decades, IATSE Local 28 members have worked at Portland Trail Blazer home games. When the pandemic hit in March and the NBA season was put on pause, all the workers at the arena were laid off...
NFLPA Supports Amazon Workers
Beginning in February, workers at the Bessemer, Alabama Amazon warehouse will vote on joining RWDSU. This is the first union election at Amazon since 2014. While the workers are facing an intense...
Post Malone Donates Crocs to Frontline Workers
Syracuse, NY native Post Malone is giving back to his community by donating sold out Crocs to frontline workers. Find out more about this generous move below from Billboard.
Supreme Court to Hear NCAA College Player Pay Case
For the first time in three decades, the highest court in the United States will hear a case challenging the NCAA’s rule forbidding players from being compensated. Their decision could have...
NFLPA: We Can Avoid a Bubble
Although the NFL has been dealing with outbreaks of COVID-19 throughout the season, the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) believes that the season can be completed without having...
A Who's Who of Players Reps
Unions in sports have provided a valuable tool for the players. Since the major sports have organized, salaries have gone up and the leagues have invested more in things like safety. Like other union...
NFLPA Wants to Ban Turf Fields
As a rookie learning the ins and outs of being a professional football player, I remember the collective groan that my older teammates made whenever it was announced that we’d be...
Baseball Reaches Deal on Postseason Bubble
The MLB Players Association and the owners have reached an agreement to hold the playoffs in a "bubble" to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and to ensure warm weather for the final games of...
Professional Athletes Strike over Police Brutality
A strike is when a worker withholds their labor to address a grievance. Here athletes are not playing. Them playing is their labor. A boycott is when decides not to spend their money or go to an...
Packers Players Speak Out after Jacob Blake Shooting
On Sunday evening Jacob Blake was on an apartment lined street in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was breaking up a fight between two women when police arrived. As Blake walked away from the scene, police...