The NFL teaches everyone a valuable lesson about labor relations
Let me begin my making my biases clear: my father was a union
man, his father was a union man, and the only thing I don’t like
about my chosen profession is that I won’t be able to be a union
man. I think that unions play a vital role in correcting the
economic inefficiencies that arise from unequal bargaining power
between employers and employees. No matter how much value you
can provide to a business, whether you’re scrubbing the toilets,
welding the widgets, building the building, or fixing the
printers, a business will always be able to undercut that value
by finding someone desperate enough to do the same job,
contributing the same value, for less pay. That is why nations
impose laws like minimum wages, collective action protections,
and equal pay statutes: because they hurt the market.  But what
is this doing on a skeptical blog, you ask? Because I, as a
skeptic, am a dedicated foe of pseudoscience, and I think that
there is a lot of econ