WAIPU Division North America
News
WAIPU assists win for players wages – SETTLED
WAIPU assists win for players wages – SETTLED More news to come soon.
WAIPU obtains support from World Players Association
WAIPU President Dr. Lucien Valloni says: We are very proud to announce that WAIPU and especially its member WAIPU North America did obtain support in their union drive from…
OHL PLAYERS WIN A MAJOR VICTORY FOR REINSTATEMENT FOR CONSPIRACY AND NEGLIGENCE CHARGES AGAINST OHL IN MINIMUM WAGES LAW SUIT.
Conspiracy, negligence charges reinstated against OHL in minimum-wage lawsuit Rick Westhead TSN Senior Correspondent Follow|Archive The Ontario Hockey League will be forced to defend allegations of conspiracy, negligence and breach…
National sports organizations must report abuse allegations immediately
(Canadian Press, www.sportnet.ca – Jun 19, 2018 / Photo: Justin Tang/CP) OTTAWA – Sports Minister Kirsty Duncan says national sporting organizations will lose their federal funding if they don’t immediately…
Fight intensifies over player compensation in Canada’s major junior hockey leagues
(Rick Westhead, www.tsn.ca – Jun 07, 2018 / Photo :The Canadian Press) Former Quebec Major Junior Hockey League player Brandon Hynes has testified that the Victoriaville Tigres didn’t provide him…
Gabriel Nadeau fights for QMJHL players rights
Le co-porte-parole de Québec solidaire, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, est décidément très coriace lorsqu’un sujet lui tient à cœur… (MARIE-RENÉE GRONDIN, www.journaldequebec.com – Jun 05, 2018 / Photo : Radio-Canada) Il en…
Opinions
WAIPU Mission
WAIPU acts in accordance with the following principles: WAIPU is the worldwide representative organization for professional icehockey players (players’ associations). WAIPU is a democratic organization. Equality and solidarity are key…
Social Dialogue
On the 1st of December 2009 the Lisbon Treaty came into effect providing a legal basis for sports in the EU territory. Article 165 gives reference to amateur sports as…
Transfer System
WAIPU is extremely critical concerning any transfer system who is not respecting the free movement of players and is penalising a player be it financially or otherwise if he wants…
Agents
WAIPU has an extremely critical opinion about the practice of players’ agents in general. A number of those agents seems to place their own interests above those of the players…
Multimedia
CBC -Lukas Walter’s fight against Canadian junior hockey
WC Finals: Finland – Russia 12.5.07 in Moscow
Legends of Hockey: Wayne Gretzky
Legends of Hockey: Bobby Orr
