What purpose would this serve?

[Squirrel]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5558815

Dont understand how this would help the players? So you decertify the union wouldnt they leave every player for themselves? Do they really think the National Labor Board would do anything for them that way. This isnt 1993 back when players never became free agents this is 2010.

The New Orleans Saints voted 59-0 to authorize the National Football League Players Association to decertify as a union if collective bargaining talks should eventually reach an impasse, according to union and player sources.

Under decertification guidelines established by the National Labor Relations Board, the union would no longer be able to represent the players in collective bargaining.

It is an action the union took that enabled individual players to seek antitrust lawsuits against the NFL and eventually provided the leverage that led to a new era of free agency in 1993.

[Kurb]

Everyone is starting to do some serious posturing now.

Maybe this is a sign the REAL talks are about to begin.

[House]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5558815

Dont understand how this would help the players? So you decertify the union wouldnt they leave every player for themselves? Do they really think the National Labor Board would do anything for them that way. This isnt 1993 back when players never became free agents this is 2010.

Don't know the entire ins and outs of it but basically if the decertify the union then it makes it impossible for the owners to lock out in '11. Every player would be able to sue the owner if they did lock out.

IF they were to decertify I don't know what the ramifications to the individual players would be IF a lock out did not occur.

[Squirrel]

Don't know the entire ins and outs of it but basically if the decertify the union then it makes it impossible for the owners to lock out in '11. Every player would be able to sue the owner if they did lock out.

IF they were to decertify I don't know what the ramifications to the individual players would be IF a lock out did not occur.

If that is the case then the owners will be able to say this is how much I will pay you take it or leave it. The owners could do worse damage to the players this way.

[House]

If that is the case then the owners will be able to say this is how much I will pay you take it or leave it. The owners could do worse damage to the players this way.

The way I understand it is this, and when I say "the way I understand it", it means this is what I am pretty sure might be sort of kinda in a way the way things will be.

If they decertify the union then owners end up getting a bargain in that they are no longer dealing with a pesky union.

However, all players would still have agents and the basic Players Contract would still be done the same way. So owners aren't really going to be saving any money there, a small +/- either way.

Without the Union then it is pretty much every team for themselves. The NFL does not want this, at all. To the NFL, every team forging its own individual path is not good for business.

[Dpantherman]

Mike Florio is saying this is a positive step for football in 2011. which means we still get football while all the poo is being sorted out...I think. Have a read---http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/09/11/nflpa-decertification-vote-could-ensure-nfl-football-in-2011/

[Squirrel]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Killing-yourself-to-live-Could-the-NFLPA-decert;_ylt=AiQAfWZjsz4tbRK1kKSLQ4hDubYF?urn=nfl-268963

Good explanation.