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Law Professor's New Book Argues for Unionization of Minor League Baseball

By Rick Karcher, Michael McCann, Geoffrey Rapp, Greg Skidmore, and Howard Wasserman

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Via the Workplace Law Prof blog and my colleague Joseph Slater, McGeorge Law Professor and labor arbitrator Don Wollett has released a new book, Getting on Base: Unionism in Baseball. The book argues that minor league baseball players should be organized into a union. Among the responses so far:

Great! ?[I] agree ? not affording collective-bargaining to minor leaguers is self-serving and outrageous. Chuck Mack, Vice President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Great contribution to baseball history?invaluable insights. Judge Alan Hancock.
After you?ve read Getting On Base?, you, the silent partner, may want to stand up and be heard, Duane Beeson, Esq., senior partner Beeson, Tayer and Bodine.
Don?s ideas about ?members-only? bargaining for minor league players in, for example, the independent minor league teams in the U.S., and a different kind of ?full services union? (complete with hiring halls) in the foreign player market, are very creative, Charles Askin, arbitrator.

Full post as published by Sports Law Blog on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).