Major League Baseball's new contract protects gay players
Wed. November 23, 2011 11:22 PM by GoPride.com News Staff
Major League Baseball's new Collective Bargaining Agreement officially protects gay baseball players from discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The new CBA was announced on Tuesday, which was good news for baseball fans, in a year when the NBA has cancelled games because of labor problems, and the NFL negotiated down to the wire with its players.
The new CBA will allow baseball games to continue uninterrupted through the 2016 season.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig and Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Michael Weiner announced today that MLB and the MLBPA have agreed to a five-year collective bargaining agreement that will allow play to continue uninterrupted through the 2016 season.
The five-year agreement matches the previous labor contract, which is to expire on December 11, 2011, as the longest in baseball history. By the end of the new contract, baseball will have gone 21 years without a strike or a lockout, which continues the longest period of labor peace the sport has had since the inception of the collective bargaining relationship.
The additional protection for gay players was not widely noted in media coverage, and is on the last page of the new CBA: "Non-discrimination protections based on sexual orientation were added to Article XV," it reads.
The new CBA was announced on Tuesday, which was good news for baseball fans, in a year when the NBA has cancelled games because of labor problems, and the NFL negotiated down to the wire with its players.
The new CBA will allow baseball games to continue uninterrupted through the 2016 season.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig and Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Michael Weiner announced today that MLB and the MLBPA have agreed to a five-year collective bargaining agreement that will allow play to continue uninterrupted through the 2016 season.
The five-year agreement matches the previous labor contract, which is to expire on December 11, 2011, as the longest in baseball history. By the end of the new contract, baseball will have gone 21 years without a strike or a lockout, which continues the longest period of labor peace the sport has had since the inception of the collective bargaining relationship.
The additional protection for gay players was not widely noted in media coverage, and is on the last page of the new CBA: "Non-discrimination protections based on sexual orientation were added to Article XV," it reads.