[USML Announce] Commentary
Andrew Klein
anrklein at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 08:23:13 EDT 2012
I'm joining forces with Brad. Enough football talk. Let's get back to
baseball.
How are the White Sox doing?
-Andy
On 9/27/12 11:45 AM, Brad Jansen wrote:
> Jeff, please. Your 4th paragraph, second line. It is "its" players,
> not "it's" players. I don't know how many times I have scolded you
> about this, and poor grammar undermines your well-stated points. I too
> have no quarrel with any employee (represented or otherwise)
> ever asking for more money from his or employer. Parties can say yes,
> no, negotiate, arbitrate, reach an impasse and go from there. I
> suggest Messrs. Block and Adams get ahold of /Harlan County, USA /to
> see what working men and women have fought for ever since this fine
> country was founded: the right to earn a fair wage in a safe working
> environment. From coalminers to cabbies to NFL refs to the paralegals
> in your office, the struggle continues to this day. /
> /
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Jeff Winick <jhwinick at aol.com
> <mailto:jhwinick at aol.com>> wrote:
>
> Clearly Mr. Adams is ready for Wall Street.
>
> Couldn't disagree more with the two of you, though.
>
> If the past few weeks have proven anything it is how rare and
> valuable the talents of the referees are. That's worth money.
>
> Part time? Sure, so are the NFL players. This is a multi-billion
> dollar industry that can afford to pay it's players hundreds of
> millions of dollars. The owners generate similarly oversized
> profits. These officials are at the pinnacle of their field and
> they are obviously crucial to the game.
>
> They are no less entitled to be paid (and perhaps absurdly so)
> than anyone else in the NFL and I, for one, am pleased to hear
> that they will be.
>
> That is all.
>
> Jeff
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 26, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Dennis Adams <dadams17 at gmail.com
> <mailto:dadams17 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Very well said. Really hard to sympathize with these guys.....
>>
>> "Currently, the NFL pays the NFLRA about $18 million, doled out
>> among some 212 union referees, for an average salary of $150,000.
>>
>> The NFL agreed two weeks ago to bump that up $1 million,
>> increasing yearly pay to around $190,000 by 2016."
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Mark Blocker
>> <blockermark at gmail.com <mailto:blockermark at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Dennis et al:
>>
>> A blogger post I saw on ESPN in response to one of Peter
>> King's one-sided stories about how the NFL should just cave
>> already on the referee negotiations. I could not have said
>> it better:
>>
>> Perhaps you see things differently, but I look at the "deal"
>> these part-time employees have, and I pretty easily conclude
>> that they, through their union, have priced themselves out of
>> the market. $100K per year for working part time, part of
>> the year? Full benefits, all completely funded, AND a
>> fully-funded retirement program? Where do you find that deal
>> anywhere, including jobs that are "life and death?" An
>> airline pilot, for example, doesn't make near that much when
>> you consider full time and year 'round, and if they screw up
>> hundreds of people can die. Perspective, folks. It's a game.
>>
>>
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>> Dennis F. Adams III
>> Candidate, Juris Doctor 2013
>> Northwestern University School of Law
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