Explosion?
The woman that saved hockey would be my pick. I don't know who that is, because she had the sense to stay out of it and let the free market do its job.
Let's review the baseball strike.
Unions are based on a pretty simple concept. Workers and owners (and that, at the end of the day means customers) bargain about labor costs. Lots of variations on that, but that is pretty much it.
This "union", however, has no interest in bargaining. The owners, representing us, the customer, came up with plan after plan after plan, and this "union" just wanted to give them, which is to say us, no assurance of what the labor cost would be. They refused to bargain in good faith, or at all. (They also, as it turned out, wanted to cheat by commiting 10s of 1000s of drug felonies, but lets leave that for another day).
So they were to be permanently replaced. A heroic thing for the owner to do for us. Of course, there would be no permanent replacements, rather this "union" would begin to bargain, as the other 3 sports unions and every other union in the world does, about labor costs. We would have what the other 3 sports have. What we, the customers, deserve.
That, after sacrificing a season, was stolen from us, and the system is still broken. We sacrificed a hockey season and that time WE won. Who can say that hockey players are "exploited" or any thing like that?
Now understand how the NLRB works. As a part of the executive branch, it has 5 members, 3 from the current president's party. It voted 3-2 for the players and against the customers. Since the executive branch has no injuntion power, they have to get a judge to rubber stamp their findings. Judges do that all the time. Its a non-thinking part of their job and NBD.
There are plenty of reasons to resist this nomination, and to treat this president in the same way the previous one was, as turnabout is fair play. All of these are OT. If you are forming your opinion on this important issue based on the baseball strike, you need serious help.
