Almost without exception Republican politicians are anti-union. Their unequivocal support for so-called “right to work” laws, which really give employers the right to screw workers, leave unions no real way to protect workers against SCAB labor. That’s why it is such a surprise when prominent Republicans condemn SCAB workers and support union workers as they have this week, resulting in a win for labor.
So long, replacement refs. The NFL’s regular crews will be back on the field starting Thursday night.
After two days of marathon negotiations — and mounting frustration among coaches, players and fans — the NFL and the referees’ union announced at midnight Thursday that a tentative agreement had been reached to end a lockout that began in June.
Commissioner Roger Goodell, who was at the bargaining table Tuesday and Wednesday, said the regular officials would work the Browns-Ravens game at Baltimore.
"Welcome back REFS," Buffalo Bills running back C.J. Spiller tweeted shortly after the news broke.
The replacements worked the first three weeks of games, triggering a wave of outrage that threatened to disrupt the rest of the season. After a missed call cost the Green Bay Packers a win on a chaotic final play at Seattle on Monday night, the two sides really got serious… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <Chicago Tribune>
Here’s video of that call:
As a member in good standing of the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, this what happened, for those who do not understand.
Green Bay Quarterback, Aaron Rogers threw a pass end to the end zone, and Green Bay wide receiver Greg Jennings caught the ball, coming down in the end zone with the ball in his possession. By NFL rules, the play was over at that point. That’s where this should have ended, with Green Bay scoring a touchdown and winning the game. But a Seattle defender, grabbed the ball and pulled it away from Jennings. The replacement refs decided to call the play an interception, so Seattle won the game.
Now where politics comes into this is that it is a labor issue. The NFL replacement refs are SCAB workers, completely unqualified to do the job. Some have no higher experience than grade school football. Some had no experience at all. One had actually been fired for incompetence by the Lipstick League, a league featuring teams of scantily clad women. The real officials were not there, because then NFL had locked them out over a dispute with their labor union.
SCAB workers, like the Replacement refs, are poster children for Republican union busting, so you would think that Republicans would be supporting their so-called “right to work”. Not so much. Few people are more notorious for union busting than Scott Walker, Fartfuhrer of the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Fitzwalkerstan (formerly Wisconsin).
Packers fans, Gov. Scott Walker and the president himself share your anger and anguish over Monday night’s Seahawks game.
In what many would have never thought possible, Walker and President Barack Obama are agreeing over a labor dispute. Tuesday morning, the Republican governor and Packers fan tweeted to a Twitter stream #Returntherealrefs dedicated to ending the lockout that has removed the real NFL referees from pro football games…
Inserted from <Milwaukee Journal Sentinel>
Equally notorious for union busting is Lord Willard’s boy wonder, Paul “Lyin’” Ryan.
GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Tuesday criticized the replacement referees who made a disputed call that caused the Green Bay Packers to lose the Monday Night Football game.
“You guys watch that Packer game last night?” Ryan said at his Cincinnati, Ohio, town-hall meeting. “I mean give me a break. It’s time to get the real refs…
Inserted from <The Hill>
What a surprise!
For me, I’m glad to see the return of the union refs, and as for the anti-union Republicans…
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They both must have lost money on the Packers' game Monday Night. That's the only reason I can think of which would make them side with a dirty, nasty union.
We all know Rmoney does NOT make small wagers. Remember when he wanted to bet $10,000 during a debate?
Yup! Sometimes money really does talk!
Hypocrites is an understatement!
Probably, but they are both from Wisconsin, and that state is heavily invested in the Packers.
I wonder if they support the NHL players in their strike? Certainly no Wisconsin team there and I don't know if these 2 low-lifes even watch or are interested in hockey.
That strike is all about money. Personally, I think all professional sports are too invested in money. Whatever happened to the love of the sport, whatever it is? Some say "but they only have so many years to do it" and I agree, but they should have known it was a limited time career right from the start. That is why an education is so important, something to fall back on. Players never know when they will be injured and never be able to play again, just like everyone else never knows when they will be injured or ill to the point of changing their life forever. As far as management goes, they are equally GREED driven.
No disagreement here, Lynn. Republicans supported the officials union only to suck-up to irate fans.
The very union-busters are outraged when the non-union ref miscalls a g-d game, the nation goes ballistic, but when it comes to teachers, educators and fire personnel – who gives a damn? This story is the hypocrisy of America
Lee, that's unfair, because you are painting us all with a Republican brush. Democrats have been fighting for teachers, educators and fire personnel and will continue to do so.