Goosegg posted:"Does the lawsuit also consider that many of the teams these players are playing on are run on a day-to-day basis by individuals making the same or even less than them?"
So if one company is violating the law, all companies can?
With all do respect to those hard working interns, each can quit and move to a team in the next town over to get better wages. Players can't.
MLB - a 9 billion dollar biz - has succeeded in off loading the player overhead to players (either through parents or living off the bonus), requiring players to work all year long (while paying them ONLY for the season [not even spring training]), not allowing players to move to another team to advance a career or for better development.
What a racket! And then MLB winds up its subservient organization - MILB - to lobby congress using the misleading information that paying MINIMUM WAGE would bankrupt some MILB teams. What a crock - MLB pays the players not MILB.
Adding insult to injury, this bill is one of the very few that has bipartisan support.
I asked the question: does this lawsuit include the interns working for these teams and if not, why doesn't it?