BLAW 3230 Chapter : Chapter 9 Outline
Document Summary
Chapter 9: antitrust and labor issues in sports. Enacted to regulate business practices among competitors affecting interstate commerce. Section 1: forbids contracts, combinations or conspiracies that may unreasonably restrain trade across state lines. Section 2: prohibits monopolization of trade and commerce. Prevents abuse of monopoly power by a single entity: clayton act. Enforcement: civil and criminal, private rights of action. Allows employees to organize as a collective bargaining unit to negotiate contract that governs all covered employees as a unit. Wagner act: guarantees workers right to join union without repercussions, encourages collective bargaining. Collective bargaining: minimum salaries and salary caps fall under mandatory topics in sports context, guaranteed contracts, renegotiation options, and termination clauses permissible topics in the big four. Non-statutory labor exemption: antitrust laws are not applicable when unions and management take part in collective bargaining process of negotiating working labor contract. Impasse: deadlock; owners can unilaterally institute terms, strikes and lockouts.
