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Is the NFL showing Americans the importance of unions?

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Sarah Jaffe, Labor Editor AlterNet & Alison Omens, Media Director, AFL-CIO joins Thom Hartmann. The National Football League is one of the most storied icons of American culture - and a favorite pastime of millions of Americans. But suddenly - with NFL referees locked out - the game is quickly losing it's credibility - and it's respect. Is this ongoing debacle showing all of Americans the importance of unions?

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Added: Sep-27-2012 Occurred On: Sep-27-2012
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  • It isn't the unions that make the professional refs superior to the replacements.

    Posted Sep-27-2012 By 
    john1054 (5500.94)  

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  • Without the unions peoples wages will most definetely go down while the corparations profits go up

    Posted Sep-27-2012 By 
    Oneeyedwilly (11.50)  

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  • Sorry libs.... The good crisis went to waste...

    The refs are back...

    Posted Sep-27-2012 By 
    XyBerFuNK (1231.30)  

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  • The NFL is showing americans the importance of education

    Posted Sep-27-2012 By 
    Airedale (2723.56)  

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  • If you don't understand the difference between public unions and private unions, you aren't smart enough to debate the subject. The American tax payers aren't forced to subsidize the lavish pensions and high salaries of private union members.

    Posted Sep-27-2012 By 
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  • The unions have nothing to do with it. Experience is the difference between the regular refs and the replacements. Ed Hochuli has been in the league since 1990.

    Also, the NFLRA and the NFL reached a deal. Regular refs will be back this Thursday.

    Posted Sep-27-2012 By 
    jum_runky (1626.04)  

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  • it does frustrate me when the officials ( whatever sport ) are held up to ridicule ! on the balance the sportsmen make individual mistakes a lot more often than the officials , and without people wanting to do it there would be no game , there are just more cameras and better editing suites these days so the minutia can be explored , the officials get only the one chance and yes there is replay but most of the time they get it right

    Posted Sep-27-2012 By 
    billybobb (787.60)  

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  • What total shite. If your not in the union your not in. This is all power hungry men and women that cant handle working in a free market. If a jobs up for grabs and you have the skill and ability to do it. Then no one should be able to prevent you. If the management or staff are shite then it will show in the performance of that company and it will either have to improve or be taken over. Thats life.

    Posted Sep-27-2012 By 
    gsgnine (56.32)  

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  • Does Scott Walker even appreciate the irony of him crying for the unionized refs to be back on duty?

    I can't wait for Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert or Rachel Maddow to point out what a hypocrite he is.

    Posted Sep-27-2012 By 
    Perfectchi (118.50)  

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