MLB Union - dues question

[d_money]

Does anyone know how the MLB Union dues structure is set up? Is it the same % of salary paid to the unions no matter how small/large the contract is (ie. 10% of a $1M contract and 10% of a $13M contract)? Or does the % decrease as the contract grows (ie. 10%/$1M and 3%/$13M)?

 

Thanks.

[NCCubFan]

A quick Google search showed an FAQ in the MLBPA portion of mlb.com. Dues are $50 per day during the season.

 

http://mlbplayers.mlb.com/pa/info/faq.jsp#dues

[chuckywang]

A quick Google search showed an FAQ in the MLBPA portion of mlb.com. Dues are $50 per day during the season.

 

http://mlbplayers.mlb.com/pa/info/faq.jsp#dues

 

That sounds alarmingly small.

[Guest]

A quick Google search showed an FAQ in the MLBPA portion of mlb.com. Dues are $50 per day during the season.

 

http://mlbplayers.mlb.com/pa/info/faq.jsp#dues

 

That sounds alarmingly small.

 

That's about $9,000 a year, or 2.25% of the minimum salary. That seems right.

[chuckywang]

A quick Google search showed an FAQ in the MLBPA portion of mlb.com. Dues are $50 per day during the season.

 

http://mlbplayers.mlb.com/pa/info/faq.jsp#dues

 

That sounds alarmingly small.

 

That's about $9,000 a year, or 2.25% of the minimum salary. That seems right.

 

However, average salary is much more than the minimum. So the total dues collected is much less than 2.25% of the average salary.

[Guest]

A quick Google search showed an FAQ in the MLBPA portion of mlb.com. Dues are $50 per day during the season.

 

http://mlbplayers.mlb.com/pa/info/faq.jsp#dues

 

That sounds alarmingly small.

 

That's about $9,000 a year, or 2.25% of the minimum salary. That seems right.

 

However, average salary is much more than the minimum. So the total dues collected is much less than 2.25% of the average salary.

 

Right, but that doesn't mean that you punish the large number of players making at or near the minimum by making them pay 5-10% of their salary just so it's not an inconsequential amount to the smaller percentage of higher salaried players.

[chuckywang]

A quick Google search showed an FAQ in the MLBPA portion of mlb.com. Dues are $50 per day during the season.

 

http://mlbplayers.mlb.com/pa/info/faq.jsp#dues

 

That sounds alarmingly small.

 

That's about $9,000 a year, or 2.25% of the minimum salary. That seems right.

 

However, average salary is much more than the minimum. So the total dues collected is much less than 2.25% of the average salary.

 

Right, but that doesn't mean that you punish the large number of players making at or near the minimum by making them pay 5-10% of their salary just so it's not an inconsequential amount to the smaller percentage of higher salaried players.

 

I was more thinking that dues should be a percentage of your salary. Players that make more should pay more dues. Same as it is with taxes.

[Guest]

That's a little counter-intuitive, don't you think? The burden/responsibility of having a player in MLBPA doesn't grow with their salary.

[chuckywang]

That's a little counter-intuitive, don't you think? The burden/responsibility of having a player in MLBPA doesn't grow with their salary.

 

You can make the same case with taxes (replacing MLBPA with society of course).

[Guest]

That's a little counter-intuitive, don't you think? The burden/responsibility of having a player in MLBPA doesn't grow with their salary.

 

You can make the same case with taxes (replacing MLBPA with society of course).

 

Conceptually yes, but there's a lot less overhead for the MLBPA, since they're a union, not a government.

[Careless]

A quick Google search showed an FAQ in the MLBPA portion of mlb.com. Dues are $50 per day during the season.

 

http://mlbplayers.mlb.com/pa/info/faq.jsp#dues

 

That sounds alarmingly small.

How many millions per year do you think the union needs?

[jersey cubs fan]

A quick Google search showed an FAQ in the MLBPA portion of mlb.com. Dues are $50 per day during the season.

 

http://mlbplayers.mlb.com/pa/info/faq.jsp#dues

 

That sounds alarmingly small.

How many millions per year do you think the union needs?

 

In any one year, not much, but in the negotiating years considerably more, and in case of a strike/lockout, much much more.