At a historic baseball game on Coney Island yesterday, minor league baseball players of the High-A affiliates of the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies held the first-ever on-field action demanding better pay.  Players from both teams donned wristbands with the inscription #FairPlay demanding higher pay. Players at their level

Greetings from the Burgh, where we’re ready to head down to the ballpark for Clemente Day festivities. (Be sure to check out our story on how Clemente helped get the players’ union behind Curt Flood.)  The University of Oklahoma Set to Strike Monday In 2018, Payday Report traveled to

Today in Pittsburgh, we celebrate Roberto Clemente Day.  Forty-eight years ago Clemente, 38, died on New Year’s Eve while on a humanitarian and political mission to Nicaragua to ensure that post-earthquake aid wasn’t being stolen by the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship.  Growing up playing baseball in Pittsburgh,

Greetings from the Burgh, where fall is slowly starting to settle in.  Heaven Hill Whiskey Workers Strike  On Monday, over 400 UFCW Local 23-D members went on strike at Heaven Hill whiskey in Bardstown, Kentucky, after workers voted down a proposed contract by a margin of 372-13. Workers say that