21/06/2017
Labour board filing pits upstart union against junior hockey league over player wages.
13/03/2017
WAIPU The World Association of IceHockey Players' Unions Is proud to announce the acceptance of the CHLPA Canadian Hockey Leagues' Players' Association as one of it's members.
20/02/2017
WAIP is requesting that each player has a right to participate at the Olympic Games. WAIPU requests that all players worldwide do get the same special treatment as NHL players do at Olympic Games.
WAIPU President Dr Lucien W Valloni concerning the WAIPU Position on Olympic Games
27/05/2016
The 8th general assembly of WAIPU was held in Moscow at the 22nd of May 2016.
31/12/2015
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 well as professional sports and enables the EU to adopt measures and recommendations in the field of sport. This article emphasizes that those measures are to be taken in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure. What does this mean for professional sports, especially for ice hockey?
30/12/2015
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 to change club after the expiring period of a contract.
WAIPU is of the opinion that clear international rules are necessary to avoid any national rules that would hinder a player to freely change a club after the expiring of his contract.
