About
Our mission is to help groups of athletes and their labor organizations improve their lives through collective action.
Sports Solidarity's Harry Marino (right) and the leaders of the United Football Players Association during a union meeting in Dallas, TX, attended by hundreds of players. Spring 2025.
What We Are
Sports Solidarity is a boutique consulting firm for groups of athletes and their labor organizations, built by operators who have delivered historic results.
The Team
Harry Marino
Founder and President
Harry Marino is the Founder and President of Sports Solidarity. He is a former professional baseball player who led the historic unionization of minor league baseball, as well as several successful collective bargaining negotiations across sports. Harry has served in various positions over his career, including Executive Director of the nonprofit Advocates for Minor Leaguers, litigation associate at Williams & Connolly LLP, assistant general counsel at the Major League Baseball Players Association, and law clerk to federal judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Harry received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and his B.A. from Williams College.
Zoe Palitz
Outside General Counsel
Zoe Palitz, a partner at the law firm Altshuler Berzon LLP, is the Outside General Counsel of Sports Solidarity. Zoe represents local and international labor unions in federal and state court litigation, administrative proceedings, arbitrations, collective bargaining, and advice matters. Zoe has been named one of Lawdragon's 500 leading plaintiff employee and civil rights lawyers in the country in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. She was a law clerk to federal judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Zoe received her J.D. from Stanford Law School and her B.A. from Yale College. She is admitted to practice law in California.
Josh Thole
Chief of Staff
Josh Thole is the Chief of Staff of Sports Solidarity. He played professional baseball for more than fourteen years, including eight at the Major League level for the New York Mets and Toronto Blue Jays. During his time in the Major Leagues, he served as an elected union Player Representative in the Major League Baseball Players Association, where he helped lead his fellow players through two successful collective bargaining negotiations. After retiring from baseball, he began a career in labor organizing. Josh worked as an Outreach Coordinator at Advocates for Minor Leaguers and helped lead the successful effort to unionize minor league baseball.
Ron Bloom
Senior Advisor
Ron Bloom is a Senior Advisor at Sports Solidarity. Ron has unique experience at the highest levels of labor, business, and government. In addition to serving as Vice Chair at Brookfield, he has served in several senior roles in the White House and as Special Assistant to the President of the United Steelworkers. In 2010, Ron was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in large part due to his role in rescuing General Motors and Chrysler while saving more than 100,000 jobs.
Sports Solidarity Center
Sports Solidarity partners with the educational non-profit Sports Solidarity Center, which runs the Sports Solidarity podcast and other programming.