Hi John,

The 5,500 players in Minor League Baseball have a few things in common: a love for the game of baseball, a brotherhood, and a dream of making it to the Major Leagues. Now, thanks to the incredible work of just a handful of organizers equipped with Action Builder, they also have a union.

“Players would make, as recently as last season, less than $12,000 a year. They have historically jammed seven, eight guys at a time into two- or three-bedroom apartments, and they’ve worked for the entire offseason without any pay at all.” — Harry Marino, Assistant General Counsel at MLBPA and one of the organizers who led the unionization effort

That all changed last September, when Minor League Baseball players joined together and formed the first union in the league’s history, affiliating with the Major League Baseball Players’ Association (MLBPA). Minor league organizers used Action Builder to keep track of one-on-one conversations, make assessments of players’ support for the unionization effort, assign follow up tasks, and more.

Click here to read the full story of this historic campaign.

We are so proud to have helped power this incredible organizing effort, and we hope this story will inspire more workers to get started building union power in their workplaces!

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Marvin Steele
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“We simply couldn’t have organized Minor League Baseball players without Action Builder. We’re talking about nearly 6,000 players across the entire United States and five organizers. With Action Builder, we were able to sit on a Zoom call with five people, pull up a database, share the screen, and effectively be in 150 clubhouses across the United States right then and there and know who our leaders are, who’s talking to who, who’s signing petitions, and where we’re strongest.” — Harry Marino, Assistant General Counsel at MLBPA

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