CFL players strike
CFL players are on strike – imagine the outcry if they can’t arrive at a deal and we’re all deprived of CFL football.
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Josh 11:39 on 2022-05-16 Permalink
Kate, I mean that’s fair but we’re talking about people who make working wages – some in the mid-five-figure range. The League offered them a 10-year deal with zero salary increases. Let me say that again: Zero salary increases over 10 years.
So mock it if you like but these aren’t millionaires who’ll be just fine, these are people who put their bodies at serious risk to do a job that pays them in some cases and in some places less than the median salary who received a truly insulting offer from the employer. Sometimes your dismissive attitude about things you personally aren’t interested in is a bit much.
Kate 12:40 on 2022-05-16 Permalink
I admit I was being snarky – but it’s not as if we need football. This isn’t like a transit strike or a strike of longshoremen at the port. It’s almost comic to apply industrial action: dammit, we won’t play a game if you don’t pay!
Bert 14:12 on 2022-05-16 Permalink
You may not need football, but the beer sellers, the security personnel, the infrastructure people, the coaches, the FieldTurf makers, the football makers, the uniform makers and washers, the broadcasters, The reporters, personal trainers, etc. all need football.
Kate 14:25 on 2022-05-16 Permalink
Well, that’s always true. It’s not “fair” either when the Canadiens bomb out early and deprive bars of playoff beer sales. Building your business on the fate of sports teams is always going to be iffy.