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Jockeys Boycott Churchill Downs
T O P I C Discussion Started: 11-10-2004, 8:09 AM Add to the Discussion
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What are your thoughts on the jockeys boycotting Churchill Downs over what they call an unfair insurance policy at the track?

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jones10 11-23-2005, 6:23 PM Add to the Discussion
I've been boycotting Churchill Downs for 48 years. Everyone should.

Steve

jones10 11-22-2005, 5:31 PM Add to the Discussion
I wish everyone would boycott Churchill Downs. Because they're just a bunch of thieves.

Steve

cpt33 12-03-2004, 9:19 AM Add to the Discussion
"The aministration at Churchill Downs needs to be informed that they must also follow rules and regulations when it comes to employee rights, and quiet making up there own rules"

What rules has Churchill Downs made up and what rules are they not following? Come with facts not just typical union rhetoric.

The jockey's guilds own former treasurer is suing the guild president because there is over $1 million in missing money. That money could have been used to purchase a substantial amount of insurance.

delta148 11-18-2004, 8:02 AM Add to the Discussion
From I understand, these jockeys work and pay taxes to the state of kentucky, but when injured they can not file workers comp. maybe they should form a union so to protest legally without the possibility of being arrested. The aministration at Churchill Downs needs to be informed that they must also follow rules and regulations when it comes to employee rights, and quiet making up there own rules. Someone needs to put them in their place, but don`t count on our mayor to help the jockeys, he is nothing but a back stabing coward who runs from problems like a little cry baby.

LissaAnne 11-15-2004, 10:34 AM Add to the Discussion
Give them what they want! After all withOUT them Kentucky's precious Derby wouldn't exist.

"It is what it is"

Indaville 11-12-2004, 5:51 AM Add to the Discussion
This is not just a boycott it is a pickett line and any union would picket for better benefits....would any of you be the scabs to cross the picket line....I know for a fact that I would not and will not!!!!! These jockeys make a good living but they deserve better benefits just like the CEOs' of many fortune 500 companies. They provide a service to this community and the wallets of many outsiders(ie...out of state horse owners) are getting fat wallets so I say let them spend a little to make these jockeys and their families have better benefits!!!!

jesroly 11-11-2004, 9:22 PM Add to the Discussion
As The WIFE OF ONE OF THE BOYCOTTING RIDERS. Let me give you the inside. Everyone is wondering where the 6.6 million given to the jockeys guild over the last 3 years has went.

1. This money is given to the jockeys guild by 38 different race tracks to total 2.2 million a year. which is about $53,000 from each race track.

2. They fail to mention they give this money to them in turn the riders sign over their media rights so the tracks can have simelcasting and can show them on TV and on commercials without paying the riders.

3. Their is a long list of permanently disabled riders who receive a check every month from the jockeys guild that ends up totaling about 1 million a year.

4. The other 1.2 million goes to our individual health insurance for our families but this insurance will not touch a jockey who gets hurt in a track accident.

5. Also at all times there is someome who is unable to ride somewhere due to a track injury and the jockeys guild gives them $200 a week to help them with bills until they are able to ride

And did they mention that as of this month they are in arrears of over $700,000.00 which is owed to the jockeys guild by these tracks.

They did offer the riders insurance for $200 a month but they were either to sign it without seeing a policy and were told it would cover them totaling $500,000 or pack up and leave. We do not feel that $500,000 is adequate. In one injury these guys could be killed as we saw at turfway last winter, or paralyzed and where is $500,000 going to go then? We would have to give up our personal belongings to cover this type of accident. Hopefully they will change the legislature so these guys can be covered by workmans comp. We have been fighting this issue for 20 years and it always gets put on the back burner that is why these guys had to take a stand. This is to Help ALL riders not only the ones who had guts enough to stand up. Every single rider including Pat Day signed a petition saying they would also boycott but as you see some of these riders got scared and chickened out!!

DJC

kymom16 11-11-2004, 9:40 AM Add to the Discussion
I AGREE WITH THE JOCKEYS BOYCOTTING. THE RACE HORSES ARE TREATED LIKE ROYALTY AND THE JOCKEYS ARE TREATED LIKE THE MUD SCRAPED OFF OF THE HORSE'S SHOE. PEOPLE THINK THAT FOOTBALL IS A ROUGH SPORT BUT I THINK THESE JOCKEY HAVE IT HARDER. I THINK THEY DESERVE THE INCREASE IN INSURANCE BECAUSE AFTER ALL THERE WOULDN'T BE A DERBY WITHOUT THEM.

KYMOM

cpt33 11-11-2004, 7:41 AM Add to the Discussion
Collective bargaining is part of the process so when a contract has been bargained, you are then suppose to work, not decide half way through the contract that you don't like the terms and then boycott. I'm not even sure the Guild is a recognized union covered by the NLRB.

I do believe they should be covered under workmens comp, but that is a State issue, not a Churchill issue.

I'd have more sympathy if the Guild was able to explain what happened to the $6.6 million they were given by the tracks for supplemental insurance but then didn't bother to purchase the insurance for their riders.

kyderby 11-10-2004, 6:12 PM Add to the Discussion
I think the Jockeys have every right to boycott over the insurance issue. Collective bargaining is part of the american way and unions, while corrupt in many ways, on balance serve the interests of labor. Jockeys have been exploited for years by this industry in a variety of ways, and now the Jockeys appear to be taking a stand. I think anyone who truly appreciates horseracing as a sport understand that the Jockeys deserve better working conditions or at least better insurance coverage. $100,000 is peanuts. They're out there literally risking their lives for fans like me who enjoy this type of entertainment. The least the industry can do is offer better insurance coverage -- they're not asking for all that much, and they're motivated by the interest in taking care of the most vulnerable among their ranks. That is a noble cause.

kyderby

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