Kelly Candaele

Kelly Candaele is a writer, a founding member of the Peace Institute at California State University, Chico, and a trustee of the Los Angeles City Employees Retirement System. He produced the documentary film, A League of Their Own, about his mother’s years in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. His brother Casey spent nine years in the big leagues and was a player union representative for the Houston Astros.

SportsOctober 8, 2019

A Tool to Improve Baseball Performance Has Become a Weapon Against the Players

How baseball’s numbers game threatens to strangle the sport.

Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier
FeminismJuly 10, 2019

The Road to the World Cup Began With Title IX

Why mixing politics and sports is essential.

Kelly Candaele
PoliticsOctober 30, 2018

The Red Sox Should Not Visit the White House

Red Sox values are not Trump values.

Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele
LaborOctober 10, 2018

Yankees Players Cross the Picket Line in Boston

Pro baseball players have made millions for themselves by unionizing and standing together. They should support striking hotel workers in their fight for better pay.

Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele
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SportsJuly 22, 2008

Hall of Fame Shut-Out

A conspiracy of management cronies is blocking 91-year-old union pioneer Marvin Miller from the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele
CorporationsOctober 2, 2006

Reform Comes to the Boardroom

Corporate America needs the discipline of democracy to help rid it of some very bad habits. And shareholder activists are pushing the SEC to shore up their rights.

Kelly Candaele
Labor OrganizingDecember 6, 2004

A Moral Minimum Wage

The Democrats should start framing economic justice as a moral issue.

Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele
LaborOctober 7, 2004

Union Makes Its Bed

On September 29 in San Francisco, 4,000 hotel employees--all members of the newly merged union UNITE HERE--walked out on strike or were locked out of their workplaces after their contracts expire

Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele
ActivismJune 10, 2004

Where Are the Jocks for Justice?

Cultural changes and lucrative endorsements may explain a drop in activism.

Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele
Labor OrganizingOctober 23, 2003

A Watershed Strike

The retail food workers strike in California may be the first in a series of battles that could shape the future of labor-management relations throughout the US.

Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele

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Kelly Candaele

SportsOctober 8, 2019

How baseball’s numbers game threatens to strangle the sport.

FeminismJuly 10, 2019

Why mixing politics and sports is essential.

PoliticsOctober 30, 2018

Red Sox values are not Trump values.

LaborOctober 10, 2018

Pro baseball players have made millions for themselves by unionizing and standing together. They should support striking hotel workers in their fight for better pay.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

SportsJuly 22, 2008

A conspiracy of management cronies is blocking 91-year-old union pioneer Marvin Miller from the Baseball Hall of Fame.

CorporationsOctober 2, 2006

Corporate America needs the discipline of democracy to help rid it of some very bad habits. And shareholder activists are pushing the SEC to shore up their rights.

Labor OrganizingDecember 6, 2004

The Democrats should start framing economic justice as a moral issue.

LaborOctober 7, 2004

On September 29 in San Francisco, 4,000 hotel employees--all members of the newly merged union UNITE HERE--walked out on strike or were locked out of their workplaces after their contracts expire

ActivismJune 10, 2004

Cultural changes and lucrative endorsements may explain a drop in activism.

Labor OrganizingOctober 23, 2003

The retail food workers strike in California may be the first in a series of battles that could shape the future of labor-management relations throughout the US.