#davidzirin — Public Fediverse posts

What’s the score Sport ?
https://therealnews.com/how-french-unions-leveraged-the-olympics-to-score-wins-for-labor

#CGT #transportworkers #union #labormovement #Olympics #Paris #LosAngeles #EdgeOfSports #DavidZirin #Sport

Even in Japan, I sometimes end up in a conversation about Gringo football. David Zirin helps me find worthwhile parts so the talk isn't as big a waste of my time.

This article is from ten years ago, but recent news about responses to a near-death on the field suggest not much has changed. I'm looking for an article that mentioned player union demands for safer grass on the fields.

.> officials who—I mean, at the risk of sounding unkind—are unskilled, untrained scabs who are in over their heads on an NFL field in front of 70,000 fans. They have no idea what they’re doing. And that’s what made Monday night such a big story, is that it crystallized in front of a national audience the problems of both corporate arrogance as well as unskilled, non-union workers.