February 01, 2022
The National Women's Soccer League made history on February 1 with the creation
of the first collective bargaining agreement
[https://twitter.com/nwsl_players/status/1488326369222094850] in professional
women's soccer. The announcement came on the eve of the start of the league's
tenth preseason, ensuring
January 06, 2022
The Premier Hockey Federation was slated to return to action this weekend;
however, both series have been postponed due to COVID protocols affecting the
Minnesota Whitecaps and Boston Pride.
Despite the delay in the PHF's return to the ice, there's been a handful of news
November 21, 2019
Sports are labor and athletes are workers. This job exists because we've created
an economy that globally supports it, albeit only for an extremely narrow subset
of athletes sustainably. The most successful sports leagues and franchises are
often ones that make profit in alignment with
June 27, 2019
Despite 200+ women's hockey players proclaiming their support #ForTheGame and
their intention not to play in any North American professional league in the
2019-2020 season, and in spite of several other complications, the National
Women's Hockey League has declared its intentions to continue on with
May 29, 2019
Being a worker is, well, work, and in order to secure the rights of workers,
formal unions and collective action have been used throughout history. What
constitutes a labor organization or union is largely dependent on IRS
regulations in the United States, but you can
May 29, 2019
In a press release distributed via LinkedIn on May 23, the NWHLPA announced that
it had reached an agreement with the league on a form contract that "includes
significant improvements to player benefits." The release lists what it
describes as highlights of the agreement, including