RTA 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: National Football League Players Association, Collective Bargaining, Bargaining Unit
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Monitor and negotiate the admin of retirement and insurance. Representing union members as part of group licensing. Same contract principles apply to spcs like other contracts. Determine what would terminate the contract, finalize deal. Guaranteed vs non-guaranteed contracts, no trade clauses, etc. Not including vacation, assignment, employer"s right to change duties. Escrow - teams will hold back a player"s salary to make cap. Union is the exclusive bargaining unit of players, agents must be regulated and licensed by the union. Agents work to represent players in contract negotiations. Once union dissolves, you expose league to antitrust law. Benefits - no cap, no draft, no max contracts. Right granted through the common law and/or state/provincial statute that allows an individual to control the commercial use of his or her identity. Five provinces enact privacy statutes providing a cause of action for the unauthorized appropriation of personality (bc, mb, sk, nl, pq)
