Source: Gap between NFL, officials is as much as $70 million

[WV]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

This is the NFL, not some small shipping company or whatever. Hell, labor lawyers might take a heavy discount on their normal fees to sue the NFL and get the vast free publicity that such a case would give. The NFL would get toasted.

Explain how Honda and Toyota keep Unions out of their plants if you think it's just a small business that could do this.

[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by WV

Explain how Honda and Toyota keep Unions out of their plants if you think it's just a small business that could do this.

No idea what the history is there. I imagine the NFL Referees unionized a very long time ago. With the players having unionized, I imagine there was not much option to try to strong-arm the refs to prevent them from also unionizing.

I know Toyota, and perhaps Honda, tended to keep their plants out of the "rust-belt" states, and that may be in part in an effort to help them convince their workers not to unionize. The point is that Toyota and Honda may have convinced their workers not to unionize, but if they wanted to they couldn't have stopped them. The NFL refs apparently wanted to and did.

[Brock]

Originally Posted by WV

Explain how Honda and Toyota keep Unions out of their plants if you think it's just a small business that could do this.

By building their plants in areas that aren't traditional manufacturing areas and the people are generally low income? Just a guess.