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More news on the battle against the NFLPA. Hausfeld LLP issued a public statement on behalf of retired football players to Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO, stating the case for the expulsion of the NFL Players Association from the AFL-CIO. We’re also including the 10-page letter that was sent to Mr. Trumka detailing how the NFLPA has consistently broken with true Union tradition and principles in the treatment of its retirees as a normal way of doing business.
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Retired NFL Players Request AFL-CIO Expel NFLPA

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David vs. the NFL and the NFLPA

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We tend to overlook the fact that Gene Upshaw generally includes VP AFL-CIO as one of his credentials. Recently, we decided to go to the AFL-CIO website (click HERE to check them out) and went over to their Executive Council Members section and found this:

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Bernie Parrish - Cleveland Browns

The AFL-CIO Center for Union Facts condemned the NFLPA’s Upshaw for his understated compensation of $2,400,000 in 2006. I have just informed them of Upshaw’s LM2 Dept of Labor report verified 2007 compensation of $10,400,000 with another $10,000,000 in deferred income coming for a record total of $20,400,000 if he leaves today without being fired for just cause. The NFLPA 10-man Executive Committee should be fired immediately for rubber-stamping this outrageous abusive union manipulation, along with every team union Player Representative. Upshaw and his insider crony’s cabal use $900 per hour lawyers (Condon, Kessler(s), Berthelson, Yablonski, Depaso, etc) to play the NFLPA “democracy” like a piano, with all of them collecting millions from union and Players Inc. funds. The NFLPA is the only union in the world built on the 3.4 year careers of vane, naive adolescent members who scorn education with more than 50% turning their backs on completing college even though it is paid for through scholarships. This is a union labor’s most perfect recipe for corruption.

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