Unions

One of the issues that I am looking into is the image of unions in popular culture and in current events. One of the biggest current issues regarding unions is the strike against the Governor of Wisconsin's budget repair bill. This repair bill would band public employee uions of most collective bargaining rights. This is similar to the National Football League Players Association where members are currently fighting for their own rights to reach a collective bargaining agreement with the NFL. The biggest difference between them is that the union issue in Wisconsin involves employee unions that represent state employees that are paid by the taxpayer. The National Football League Players Association is a private union. While I was researching this something I found very interesting was that on April 6 ABC News in Wisconsin covered the case saying that the NFL players are currently aruging that the lockout is not valid anymore because they are no longer a union. The NFL attorney countered back and declared that this, "decertificaiton of the players union is sham".