{"pk":60210,"title":"Labor Pains on the Playing Field: Why Taking a Page from Europe's Playbook Could Help the United States","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Work stoppages have become commonplace in American professional\n \nsports. Whether it takes the form of a strike or a lockout, a work\n \nstoppage, or the threat thereof accompanies nearly every labor dispute\n \nbetween owners and players. This is hardly surprising, though,\n \nbecause the current system for resolving labor disputes-the National\n \nLabor Relations Act and its implementing body, the National Labor\n \nRelations Board is ill-fitted to the unique challenges posed by sports\n \nlabor issues. Additionally, there is no institution tasked with directly\n \noverseeing professional sports in America.\n \n \nThe same is not true in Europe. Oversight bodies are common\n \nthroughout Europe and help to resolve sports labor disputes before\n \nthey turn into full-blown work stoppages. As this Article discusses,\n \nAmerican professional sports need this type of oversight.\n \n \nTherefore, this Article advocates a two-tiered approach to solving\n \nAmerican professional sports' culture of frequent work stoppages.\n \nFirst, the United States should enact new legislation to govern the resolution\n \nof sports labor disputes, as it has already done to regulate labor\n \ndisputes in other American industries. Second, the United States\n \nshould create a body charged with overseeing professional sports and\n \nimplementing this newly-created legislation. By taking these two steps,\n \nthe United States can end the pattern of work stoppages that plagues\n \nprofessional sports labor disputes and provide stability to this critical\n \nAmerican industry.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8b39c9xf","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Trevor","middle_name":"E.","last_name":"Brice","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2015-04-25T16:12:25Z","date_accepted":"2015-04-25T16:12:25Z","date_published":"2013-01-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclalaw_elr/article/60210/galley/46169/download/"}]}