NFL Stars to Gov: You Suck!
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, and Kansas Governor Sam Brownback all take their marching orders from guys like the Koch brothers.
That’s why they’re all trying their very hardest to please their ultra-rich masters by eliminating unions.
Wisconsin could go “right to work,” as early as this week. Not to worry though—there’s an exemption for public safety workers.
The divide and conquer strategy has played out perfectly for Walker and other radical governors that would like nothing more than to take money out of the pockets of working people and deposit those funds directly into the bank accounts of the guys that actually own America.
But there’s one group that isn’t going to take the assault on Americans’ rights lying down.
Oddly enough, it’s the guy that play in the NFL that are taking Scotty to task.
DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the National Football League Players Association, blasted Walker in a recent letter.
“Our guys work for a living,” Smith said. “And when it comes to the issues of working men and women in America, our issues really aren’t so divergent from theirs. Our guys want a safe workplace. They want a fair wage. They want a fair pension. And they want to know that they can address all of those issues as a collective team rather than being subjected to an employer who has a significant, if not tremendous, amount of bargaining leverage over an individual,” Smith wrote.
This of course brings to mind the “good old days” for owners when players didn’t have unions or much in the way of rights.
And it wasn’t for Curt Flood and other labor pioneers from the world of sports, odds are that a starting pitcher for a major league baseball team in a major media market would be living on a teacher’s salary.
From Wikipedia:
Baseball collusion refers to owners working together to avoid competitive bidding for player services or players jointly negotiating with team owners.
Collusion in baseball is formally defined in the Major League Baseball Collective Bargaining Agreement, which states “Players shall not act in concert with other Players and Clubs shall not act in concert with other Clubs.” [1] Major League Baseball went through a period of owner collusion during the off-seasons of 1985, 1986, and 1987.
Now they call it “right to work.”