{"id":8881,"date":"2011-03-11T18:27:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T23:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8881"},"modified":"2011-03-11T18:27:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T23:27:16","slug":"nfl-players-say-no-to-collective-bargaining-why-not-public-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8881\/nfl-players-say-no-to-collective-bargaining-why-not-public-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Players Say No to Collective Bargaining, Why Not Public Employees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least one group of union members doesn\u2019t treat collective bargaining rights as the end-all, be-all of organized labor.\u00a0 Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/news\/story?id=6205936\" target=\"_blank\">the NFL Players Association voted to decertify itself<\/a> when negotiations broke down with league owners over the proper revenue sharing ratio.<\/p>\n<p>One of the effects of decertification is the elimination of NFL players\u2019 collective bargaining rights, and the transformation of the union into a trade association.\u00a0 Of course, the fight between labor and management now goes to the courts; mostly because labor thinks it can get a better deal.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe so, maybe not, but at least NFL players have the opportunity to choose whether the union structure best serves their needs.\u00a0 Imagine if Wisconsin public employees had that kind of freedom.\u00a0 Do you think a majority would vote to certify their union every year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least one group of union members doesn\u2019t treat collective bargaining rights as the end-all, be-all of organized labor.\u00a0 Today, the NFL Players Association voted to decertify itself when negotiations broke down with league owners over the proper revenue sharing ratio. One of the effects of decertification is the elimination of NFL players\u2019 collective bargaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2419,1186,2470,319,761,1500],"class_list":["post-8881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-collective-bargaining","tag-labor","tag-management","tag-nfl","tag-public-employee-unions","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8884,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions\/8884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}