The inherent advantage that Major League Baseball has in any labor battle is that players’ salaries are public and…
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CHICAGO, Ill. — By Monday, you could tell it was coming. It had been building for months, of course, but by 2:00…
Prompted by The Ringer’s unionization, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, whose site uses the tagline “By the…
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The editorial staff of The Ringer announced this morning that they have formed a union with the WGA East. In their…
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Last night, U.S. Soccer president Carlos Cordeiro dropped a letter and accompanying fact sheet supporting a claim…
Before Game 3 of the 1956 NHL semifinals between Detroit and Toronto, an unhinged Maple Leafs fan phoned the hotel…
Athlete representatives in the U.S. Olympic movement recently met in the basement of an airport hotel in Chicago to…
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Pro MMA veteran Leslie Smith was supposed to fight on last weekend’s UFC Fight Night card, but her bout with Aspen…
Citing the failure of its social video efforts, Vox Media laid off about 50 people yesterday, mostly from Racked, Cur…
The Golf Channel’s technicians went on strike today after disagreements over their contracts remain unresolved after…
It’s a story almost perfectly crafted to drown in the current news stream. A group of North Carolina…
The Arizona Republic uncovered federal records showing that the Arizona Coyotes have been the subject of two…
Today, thousands of graduate students at Cornell University will vote on whether or not to form a union.…
There is one reason why building workers in New York City can make a living wage: the Service Employees…
For the past several weeks, employees at the media company Thrillist have been subject to an anti-union campaign…
Successful union campaigns have flourished across the digital media industry over the past year and a half. Few have…
Today, more than 300 grad student workers at Yale will vote on whether or not they want to unionize. You may be…
Since the Reagan era, wages have stagnated, unions have declined, and average workers have lost power. If we want…
There is no doubt that Donald Trump’s presidency will be bad for the average worker. But one law would be worse than…