The Baltimore Orioles Team Store at Camden Yards is, as of 2023, subcontracted through a company called Fanatics. And Fanatics is drawing a hard line against the store retail workers represented by UNITE HERE Local 7. The union is asking for a new labor contract with full time work at a decent wage, as well as health benefits. Fanatics wants temporary workers in part time jobs without health coverage. The Orioles retail workers already make substantially less than those in other Major League Baseball retail stores. While Fanatics is playing hardball, the workers are suffering, unable to pay their bills or care for sick relatives without their health benefits. The Orioles are currently in ownership transition, with two private equity billionaires in the process of buying a majority stake in the team from longtime owners, the Angelos family. The family patriarch Peter Angelos made his money through labor law and even supported the players to the chagrin of his ownership brethren thirty years ago in the 1994 player’s strike. The question is now twofold: 1. Will Fanatics finally negotiate in good faith with the Fanatics workers? And 2. How long can the Baltimore Orioles remain silent?

Videography: Adam Coley
Post-Production: Taylor Hebden
Audio Post-Production: David Hebden
Opening Sequence: Cameron Granadino
Music by: Eze Jackson & Carlos Guillen

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