They’ve gone and done it.
Faced with the prospect of a class action lawsuit because minor league ballplayers do not make a federally-mandated minimum wage for the for the long hours they put in seven days a week, Congress has stuck inside a “must-pass” budget bill the Orwellian-named “Save America’s Pastime Act.” This bill would allow MLB owners to continue to exploit minor league baseball players and pay them a sub-minimum wage as a matter of law.
This act is a response to a series of class action lawsuits by former minor league players who were not paid a federally-mandated minimum wage for their time in the minors.