Dan Duggan
@DDuggan21
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The NFLPA held a call with rookies and their agents today. Source says NFLPA leadership is pushing for rookies not to attend any voluntary workouts this spring, including rookie minicamp.
Getting rookies, particularly undrafted free agents, to go along could be a challenge.
no they couldn't care less. That rookie gets cut that means another union member made the team instead, the union is ok either way.
Grizz....there are exemptions from the antitrust laws for collective bargaining agreements/union activity. I don't recall the background on rookie wage scales....but if collectively bargained, I believe they would likely withstand legal scrutiny.
That's not how it works, dude. Legitimate labor objectives have been exempt from the Sherman Antitrust Act since at least the Norris-La Guardia act of 1932.
A rookie, who is not a member of the Union, has the unabridged Ebel right to negotiate directly with his employer.
Assuming a rookie was worth 10 million a year on the open market, how can you Union tell him you are going to work for 500000 and like it?
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A rookie, who is not a member of the Union, has the unabridged Ebel right to negotiate directly with his employer.
Assuming a rookie was worth 10 million a year on the open market, how can you Union tell him you are going to work for 500000 and like it?
The players union is operated by players that participate in the NFL. One is not capable of playing in the league unless they're in the union. Past and present players created the current CBA that stipulates wage scales and working conditions.
A rookie entering the league has virtually zero leverage in the situation, nor should they. They didn't have an opportunity to create the CBA and can't until they play by the rules established by the aforementioned.
As an aside, I can tell your age by the argument you present. Sense of entitlement? Check. Arguing a vague point with minimal understanding? Check. Houston, We have a Zoomer.
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A rookie, who is not a member of the Union, has the unabridged Ebel right to negotiate directly with his employer.
Assuming a rookie was worth 10 million a year on the open market, how can you Union tell him you are going to work for 500000 and like it?
The players union is operated by players that participate in the NFL. One is not capable of playing in the league unless they're in the union. Past and present players created the current CBA that stipulates wage scales and working conditions.
A rookie entering the league has virtually zero leverage in the situation, nor should they. They didn't have an opportunity to create the CBA and can't until they play by the rules established by the aforementioned.
As an aside, I can tell your age by the argument you present. Sense of entitlement? Check. Arguing a vague point with minimal understanding? Check. Houston, We have a Zoomer.
I'm not sure your response is entirely accurate. I believe a player could refuse to join the union if there team is in a right to work state.
1. it gives them more lottery tickets for the crap shoot.
2. the cap is expected to stay flat next year and rookies are cheap labor.
The "union" and I use that term loosely knows better than anyone that the middle class players have them most to lose and least to gain from every rookie class. For them the more rookies that get cut the better.