Union workers picketing outside a car wash in Brooklyn. (PHOTO: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

According to a media release from the United Food and Commercial Workers’ union, members and allies will visit four different spring training venues this weekend to leaflet in support of minor league baseball players. An ongoing lawsuit against Major League Baseball and all 30 of its teams holds that minor leaguers, who earn as little as $1100 a month during the season, deserve the right to the national minimum wage.

From the UFCW:

United Food and Commercial Workers’ union and allies will leaflet at four major league spring training games to raise awareness among fans about the plight of minor league players who often make less than minimum wage, are often not paid at all and are not paid federal overtime wages….

“We are leafletting at these games to support minor league ball players,” said Ed Chambers the president of UFCW Local 1625. “We support all workers, irrespective of industry, looking for fair wages and benefits and improved working conditions. Minor league players are no exception.”

The union intends to appear at games in Tampa and Lakeland, Fla. on Saturday and in Scottsdale and Surprise, Ariz. on Sunday.

Major Leaguers are represented by the Major League Baseball Players Association, one of the strongest unions in sports. But though salaries have exploded at the big-league level since the start of free agency, minor league wages have not increased nearly enough to even keep up with inflation.