Minor Leaguers Win Free Housing Through Unprecedented Organizing

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In July, Payday covered the efforts of Advocates for Minor Leaguers to organize against massive housing crisis among minor league baseball players, whose minimum wage starts at only $500-a-week. Through viral videos depicting horrific minor league housing conditions like the one made in conjunction with More Perfect Union, social media campaigns, and fan mobilization campaigns, the group has successfully won pledges from individual teams to provide housing for minor league baseball players.

This September, Payday covered how the group escalated its activities when members of the Mets and the Phillies minor league organization wore #FairPlay bracelets to show their support for the rights of minor league baseball players as workers. In the playoffs this month, some major leaguers, including Dodgers All-Star Chris Taylor, wore bracelets to show the support of major leaguers, whose union contract is up this winter, for the right of the lesser paid minor leaguers’.

Today, under much public pressure, Major League Baseball announced that they will now require minor league teams to provide free housing for all of their minor leaguers. The decision is a major victory for the fledging Advocates for Minor Leaguers, formed just in 2020.

https://paydayreport.com/minor-leaguers-win-free-housing-through-organizing/