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Why is there a collusion case at all with Colin Kaepernick if there is "at will" employment in almost every state?
No one is required to be hired in any state, and there's no such thing as "veteran's preference" or similar arguments. The man had a $19M contract, created negative attention to his team in uniform which resulted in his getting cut for cap room, and wasn't getting hired by other teams largely because of the disturbance - an argument that holds up even at hospitals, grocery stores, even Burger King.
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- 3 years agoFavorite Answer
There is no "collusion" between the NFL owners to not hire Kaepernick, there doesn't need to be. NFL owners are in the business to make money, not lose money. Hiring Kaepernick would bring some people who are followers of him, but it would also bring others who despise him. That conflict is not something that any NFL owner is willing to spend millions of dollars investing into. And although Kaepernick may help a team win some games, he is not an all lights out QB that opposing teams are afraid of. The negatives far outweigh the positives, and NFL owners do not need to contact each other to blackball Kaepernick, the many reasons they don't hire him are obvious without the need for collusion.
- Anonymous3 years ago
There is a collusion case because the league's contract with the NFLPA forbids collusion by the owners to prevent employment. Right to work laws have nothing to with the issue, nor any hiring, anywhere. Whether there was actual collusion will be decided by a judge.
- baudkarmaLv 73 years ago
The fundamental principle of a free market economy is competition. Competition is supposed to drive business decisions, so that government regulation is unnecessary. When businesses cooperate with each other about certain aspects of their industry where there should be competition, that's collusion.
Samsung plead guilty to price fixing for memory chips in 2005 and was fine $300 million. Major League Baseball owners have been found guilty several times of colluding to artificially deflate the size of contracts offered to free agents.
If each NFL owner decided on his own not to hire Kaepernick, there's no problem. If there was some sort of agreement between the owners to freeze him out, then it's collusion, and a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
- Anonymous3 years ago
He's a real piece of garbage.