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Originally Posted by J.Rutledge
Each umpire is going to have to make a personal decision and they might suffer the consequences for their actions. Of course there will be some umpires that come out, but I do not think that is going to hurt the union. First of all there has to be a system to train, evaluate and hopefully progress these umpires to the next level. If management and the union do not come to some agreement, then who are going to be the umpires that will years down the road replace the Major League Umpires?
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Please don't write about things you clearly don't know much about.
The umpire's union is a recent occurence - MiLB and MLB did just fine for a long time without the union. If AMLU disappears, the PBUC system will still be in place and the umpires will still receive training and promotion. Candidates will still have to attend professional school and be evaluated before signing on. They just won't have to pay dues and be embarrassed by a joker at the helm.
My best guess is that the membership will become disheartened soon and start talking about forming a new alliance. If this hasn't happened already,
, it will be the death of AMLU. Some of the old guard will retire or be pushed out. Others will try to regain their dream and get back out on the field. Some of the replacements will be encouraged to enter the system and others will be hired on as local support crew. MiLB will make some small concessions but not what the union has bargained for all along. In the end, there will be former AMLU guys out there doing the job and that is where they should have been all along.