NBA Players Wanted Their Rights as Workers. Owners ...

NBA Players Wanted Their Rights as Workers. Owners ... - Jacobin

A new labor history of the league shows, pro basketball players had to unionize and threaten strikes to get out from under the thumb of owners.

NBA Players are at the Apex of their Labor Power - Workday Magazine

After the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin players restricted their labor in a wildcat strike to express their frustration ...

Why I Filed an Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against the NBA

NBA bylaws allow the league's commissioner to punish players for statements “prejudicial or detrimental to the best interests” of the NBA or ...

NBA Owners Win Big with New Collective Bargaining Agreement

... emotions of owners and players alike as news broke this weekend of a tentative labor deal between NBA players and owners. Make no mistake...the ...

NBA's strong relationship with its players could prevent collective ...

NBA owners supporting their players' fight for social injustice and economic inequality could help when settling collective bargaining issues tied to losses ...

Player-turned-owner Michael Jordan lauded by both sides for role in ...

Eighteen years ago, Michael Jordan spoke loudly and carried a big name, all of it leveraged on behalf of the NBA players in a labor fight ...

Pro Basketball Needs a Bill of Rights - From Way Downtown

No one has a bigger stake in the future of the National Basketball Association than the players. The owners have money tied up in their teams, ...

N.B.A. Stars and Owners Say They'll Cover Workers' Lost Wages

Some of the N.B.A.'s biggest stars — including Zion Williamson and Giannis Antetokounmpo — and several team owners said they would help ...

Who's right in NBA war? Who cares? - SouthCoastToday.com

The main bone of contention is the owners want a hard salary cap and the players want to keep the so-called "Larry Bird exemption," which ...

Editorial: NBA lockout robs workers, business owners of income

In a lockout, the owners of the 30 league teams can't agree on how to share the league's revenue with the players. The previous contract between ...

r/nba on Reddit: [Vorkunov] Adam Silver said “there are particular ...

Adam Silver said "there are particular rights here to someone who owns an NBA team as opposed to someone who is an employee," when explaining ...

The NBA has an 'owner mentality' problem - Andscape

But what it's really about is property ownership. An NBA contract ties a player to a team, thus making the player the property of the owner, who ...

Players vs Owners: Prepare for War | SLAM

The proposal, sent to the union earlier this week, seeks a reduction in the players' share of basketball-related income from 57 percent to well below 50 percent ...

NBA players face questions over shoe deals with Chinese ... - ESPN

Li-Ning, Anta, Peak and 361 Degrees -- all of which have NBA stars as reps -- are identified by the U.S. government and human rights groups as ...

In 2011, the start of the national basketball association's season was ...

NBA players, who make huge salaries that average in the millions of dollars would want to belong to a labor union to be able to bargain more effectively with ...

Why NBA Owners' $300M Pledge Isn't Enough for Players' Fight ...

In early August, the NBA's board of governors agreed to contribute $300 million over the next 10 years to economically empower the Black ...

About - National Basketball Players Association

As a result of the resolve of the union's early leaders, including NBA Hall of Famers Bob Cousy, Tom Heinsohn and Oscar Robertson, the owners finally recognized ...

How The Owners Won The NBA Lockout

The most fundamental issue at stake is that under the old labor agreement, owners committed to paying out 57 percent of Basketball-Related Income in the form ...

NBA union boss wants to prove players were right to 'give a girl a ...

Michele Roberts, the first woman ever to run a professional sports union in North America, is on top of what is still very much a man's ...

NBA players, owners remain far apart in labor dispute

NBA Commissioner David Stern said on April 15 that ownership would deliver a new proposal to the players' union — the first from either side in ...