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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Don Fehr was prepared to cancel the 2002 World Series. His players gave him a mandate to do so. Fortunately, the players also wanted to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past as much as the owners did.
The NHL will never know labour peace while someone like Don Fehr is head of the NHLPA because the NHL knows full well the damage MLB did to itself in 1994 and almost repeated in 2002. There will never be a season started without a CBA, and Don Fehr's entire history is one of brinksmanship. This is not a recipe for labour peace.
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You obviously have no idea how unions work. No union is one man. The president represents the wants of his members, not the other way around. I could easily predict the mind set of every worker and employer on this planet:
Worker
"I want to be paid more money than anyone else and work the least. Somehow I deserve to have the company provide me with the most responsibility, benefits, training and work-life balance without me ever having to invest, dedicate myself or contribute to the organization at all"
Employer
"I want to generate the most amount of profits imaginable because I built this company and the workers would be nothing if it wasn't for me providing their family's with food on their table. They should get paid as little as possible and be satisfied they even have a job, and shouldn't complain about work conditions, benefits, hours or anything else that's none of their business, and leave the thinking to those who are capable"
Obviously not every person thinks like this all the time, but generally we all fall under the cake-and-eat-it-too paradox at some point in our lives