What's going on? Miami airport employees are Madden 23 coins fasting in demonstrations during Super Bowl week
"Our members work for money," Madden NFL 23PA executive director DeMaurice Smith told workers protesting at the Miami airport Monday morning. "They're the ones who tear their backs. They're also the ones who cut their hands, they're the ones who actually perform the work. We're labor. They're management, we're labor."
Smith attempted to address a common misconception: that the unions of athletes don't require or provide the same kind of solidarity found within larger unions of workers with lower incomes, such as healthcare workers' unions, teacher's unions as well as in the case of UNITE HERE -- the union behind the protest -transportation, hospitality and manufacturing workers throughout the country. Smith spoke in support UNITE HERE's current public escalation and a fast for six days within the Miami Airport by airline catering workers who have been fighting for fair wages and health benefits for more than one year.
"When we see people like that of the Madden NFL 23PA who stand with us and draw a line with what the players have to go through it shows that at the end of the day , it's still taking on the boss," states Diana Hussein, a communications specialist at UNITE HERE.
"This week, we'll be at one of the largest parties anywhere," Smith told the madden 23 mut coins crowd.