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10 Seton Hall J. Sport L. 357 (2000)
Major League Soccer: Antitrust, the Single Entity, and the Heightened Demand for a Labor Movement in the New Professional Soccer League

handle is hein.journals/shjsl10 and id is 361 raw text is: MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER: ANTITRUST, THE SINGLE ENTITY, AND THE HEIGHTENED DEMAND FOR A LABOR MOVEMENT IN THE NEW PROFESSIONAL SOCCER LEAGUE Phillip Lawrence Wright, Jr.* INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................... 358 I. FRASER v. MAJoRLEAGUE SOCCER .................................................. 359 I1. ANTITRUST APPLICATION TO PROFESSIONAL SPORTS ..................... 363 A. Smith v. Pro Football ............................................................. 363 B. The Sherman Act ..................................................................... 364 C. The Single Entity ..................................................................... 364 L. THE HEIGHTENED DEMAND FOR A LABOR MOVEMENT IN MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER ............................................................................. 368 A. The National Labor Policy ..................................................... 368 1. The Clayton A ct ................................................................ 369 2. The Norris-Laguardia Act ................................................. 369 3. The National Labor Relations Act .................................... 369 4. The National Labor Relations Board ................................ 370 5. The Labor-Management Relations Act ............................. 370 6. Collective Bargaining and Arbitration .............................. 370 B. Professional Sports and Labor Relations ............................... 371 1. The History of Labor Unions in Professional Sports ........ 371 2. Collective Bargaining in Professional Sports ................... 372 3. Arbitration in Professional Sports ..................................... 372 C. The Need For the Players to Unionize and Collectively Bargain in Order to Effectively Resolve Their Disputes W ith the League ...................................................................... 373 1. The Employees' Right to Unionize ................................... 373 2. The Unionization and Collective Bargaining Processes ... 373 3. The Benefits of Unionization and Collective Bargaining in M LS ............................................................ 374 Phillip Lawrence Wright, Jr. received his J.D. from Capital University Law School in 1999. Mr. Wright has experience in case law summary editing for a legal publisher and mass litigation support. The author wishes to thank Prof. Floyd D. Weatherspoon of Capital University Law School for his review and comments of this article.

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