Brian39
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- Apr 24, 2014
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The Blues, players, season ticket holders and Blues for Kids charitable foundation announced a fund today to help with employees who won't be getting paid based on the stoppage of events. At the risk of getting political, I'd like to talk about this a bit.
This is a good step and will help employees. I'm proud of the players (every one contributed) and happy that these workers aren't totally left out in the cold.
With that said, I want to talk about what this isn't. This is not the team paying employees. Unless it was accidentally left out of the press release, as of now there has been zero contribution to the fund by the team or any individual owner. Frankly, that would be a hell of an omission from the press release considering there is mention of contributions from the players, season ticket holders and the Blues for Kids charity which will be donating proceeds from past 50-50 raffles to this fund. I'd be stunned if the team had contributed money and no one noticed that it wasn't mentioned in this report. I hope the Blues prove me wrong and issue a clarification telling us about a huge donation the team has made to the fund.
A bunch of people are going to hear this news and believe that the team is stepping up and paying their workers who lost hours. That is not what is happening. The team has passed that buck onto players, season ticket holders, and anyone who wishes to follow the link in the press release to donate money.