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Originally Posted by mbcrowder
You don't think it would be a bigger favor to NOT work - giving the NFLRA a much more immediate position of power?
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The only power the NFLRA has is the difference in quality between them and the replacements. If it weren't for them threatening the D1 officials with being blacklisted, they would have no power. Time is more on the owner's side than the referees.
That threat is extortion. As Merriam-Webster puts it "to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power." It may not be the best word, but I think it fits.
I think the NFLRA is morally wrong to blacklist those who disagree with them that they are underpaid.