Nope, i don't know a F'ing thing about unions and the politics they play. Police and fire/safety unions are similar in that they've unionized so that they won't be abused by their employers- in their cases usually several city councilmen or Aldermen. The NFL players unionized because they felt they could keep from getting abused as players and to thwart any 'abuse' a team's owner might inflict ('abuse' meaning lots of things...lack of playing time, fines that weren't spelled out etc, etc, etc.). Now, you brought in the proverbial 'teacher'. Teachers unions exist to get into a city's pocket and drag whatever coin they can out of the city council/county supervisor's pocket without regard for the budget or city as a whole. Truly a bad example if you were trying to draw an analogy. Great analogy for me, though. And now the player don't want this union representing them why???? So they can sue to get more than the owners had already agreed to.