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Re:LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineer... by asadotzler on Monday October 16, 2023 @06:58PM (#37907837)
When the NBA pays its players tens of millions of dollars a year - seems hard to understand why an NBA player would need a union.
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Re:LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineer... by tiffanyh on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:53PM (#37908850)
The NBA is an extreme outlier case where even the NBA wants there to be a union because any single player can have drastic negative repercussions.

Theres virtually no other business that yields so much revenue from only ~10 people (5 on court players and 5 bench players).

If Lebron decided to not show up to a bunch of games, this would have massive repercussions for the entire league & TV contracts.

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