Case Studies

Our team has helped thousands of professional athletes increase their wages, improve their working conditions, and gain a voice on the job.

~5,500

Players Organized

Advocates for Minor Leaguers → the minor league CBA

The Largest Successful Sports Organizing Effort in Decades

The team that founded Sports Solidarity led the unionization of Minor League Baseball, organizing 5,500 players across 150 teams and delivering the sport's first collective bargaining agreement — worth $600M — with a staff of fewer than ten.

The minor league campaign is the reason we exist as a firm. It proved that the specialist playbook we run works at scale, on the ground, against the hardest kind of opposition. Every engagement since has drawn on that work.

Engagement type: organizing + first CBA + ED-level support.

Aerial view of a high school football field with a running track around it, surrounded by parking lots, streets, trees, and nearby buildings.

~400

Players Assisted

United Football Players Association (UFPA)

Outlasting Management in a Contentious Negotiation

We helped the UFPA cultivate mass player engagement, organize a holdout, and mount a significant public pressure campaign during a contentious CBA negotiation that lasted into the middle of the 2025 season. The agreement yielded year-round healthcare and a meaningful salary increase, among other improvements, for professional spring football players who had long been overlooked and mistreated.

Engagement type: First CBA + ED-level support.

~200

Players Assisted

United States Rugby Players Association (USRPA)

A Win-Win Deal During a Difficult Moment

We helped the USRPA negotiate the first-ever collective bargaining agreement in U.S. rugby history. The deal was brokered through collaborative negotiations with management amidst a single offseason in which Major League Rugby lost nearly half its teams.

Engagement type: First CBA + ED-level support.

Overhead view of a blue tennis court with a net in the center. Two cartoon characters, one on each side of the net, are playing tennis.

~200

Players Assisted

World Pickleball Players Association (WPPA)

Collective Representation in a Nontraditional Space

We helped a group of veteran professional pickleball players form the first-ever players association in the sport’s history. We then assisted more than half the players on the pro tour in navigating a major contract dispute with management, marking a significant inroad into our work with individual sport athletes.

Engagement type: Organizing + Non-Union Collective Action.