Bill,
So the refs prevailed in their labor dispute with the owners. This wasn't dispute about equal pay. If, for instance, refs within either group (the union or the subs) were being paid unequally for the same work at the same level of talent, it would have qualified. This was an old fashioned labor management donnybrook, in which the owners wanted to minimize their labor costs and maximize their profits, and the workers wanted to maximize their earnings and benefits. Unlike so many workers in the present era, the NFL refs had the advantage of possessing rare skills that are not easily transferable, and the owners miscalculated the cost of having them replaced by incompetents.
Eli
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