With the NFL allowed to impose its restraints through an impasse in bargaining and seemingly free to impose their system on the players as long as the players had a collective bargaining agent (union), Upshaw decided to have the players become antitrust litigants rather than union members.
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By year-end more than 80, 000 Western Union agent locations are open in over 140 countries.
But its return will make a significant impact on athletes who deduct tens sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars in agent fees, union dues and training expenses in addition to their mortgage interest, real estate taxes, state income taxes (athletes are taxed in nearly every state they play), charitable contributions, investment expenses and tax preparation fees.
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The nine-month suspension of long-time football agent Gary Wichard handed down by the NFL Players Association Friday is the highest-impact agent discipline from the present union leadership to date.
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Another way the players could get creative: pointing out the number of recent draft picks and free agent hopefuls were not part of the union when negotiations started.
Early on this outcast in a family of great wealth and power turned to Islamic radicalism, and he threw himself into the 1980s Afghanistan war against the Soviet Union, training recruits as an agent of the Saudis.
Under the previous leadership of Gene Upshaw, the union had little regard for agents aside for Upshaw agent Tom Condon.
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The union decertified, negating its existence as a collective bargaining agent, and allowing players to sue the NFL about the restraints in place.
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Similarly, someone on a Dow Chemical computer deleted details of the company's development of birth defect-inducing Agent Orange and the continuing controversy around the Bhopal disaster, in which Union Carbide, a firm that Dow later acquired, was responsible for the death of as many as 22, 000 Indians.
Similarly, someone on a Dow Chemical (nyse: DOW - news - people ) computer deleted details of the company's development of birth defect-inducing Agent Orange and the continuing controversy around the Bhopal disaster, in which Union Carbide, a firm that Dow later acquired, was responsible for the death of as many as 22, 000 Indians.
It could be a labor lawyer, it could be an agent, it could be a former player who's been active in union affairs.
Down the street a pristine, nearly empty branch of Mexican banking giant Bancomer, devoted to money transfers, sits a few storefronts down from a cluttered travel agent offering transfers under the Orlandi Valuta brand--a subsidiary of Western Union's parent.
The NFL believes the NFLPA will pursue a legal strategy of Decertification to achieve its goals: effectively dissolving itself as a union, leaving the NFL no one to bargain with as the collective agent of the players.
In the union lawyers' world, every player would enter the league as an unrestricted free agent, an independent contractor free to sell his services to any team.
Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union has in place today the necessary facilities to dispose safely of the vast quantities of lethal chemical agent that would have to destroyed under the bilateral accord.
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