Jack Encarnacao of the Boston Herald writes about Jeff Boris and his quest for his Professional Fighters Association (PFA) to establish a union for UFC fighters. In an interview with Boris, he explained more details for his plan for the company.
In the article, Borris states that the PFA will seek to have an executive board of fighter representatives for each weight class and an agent advisory board. The agent board would be comprised of those that represent a significant amount of fighters for the organization.
Borris states that he hopes to unionize fighters in the next 6 months but it may take up to a year to obtain the requisite number of fighters to command a vote to unionize or for the UFC to recognize the fighter union.
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It will be interesting to see whether the PFA can get enough fighters (30% of contracted fighters) on board to sign union solicitation cards. The intent to set up fighter representative boards is interesting and we will see if and when this might occur how much influence agents and/or other fighters have in the selection to these type of boards.
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