How have pro sports survived with player unions?

If one were to evaluate the popularity of pro leagues using $$$ as the basic standard of measure,
then it seems pro sports do pretty dang well with player unions. Do they not?

There is no reason to be afraid of collective bargaining. Players should have a say in this situation, don't you think? They are adults after all.

Maybe if we removed some of the myth and hyperbole about player unions, and applied a little common sense, we'd see that it would be helpful to resolving a lot of the problems related to the dilemma of putting players on the field during a pandemic.

Instead of chaos, we need leadership and organization across the board. That's the best way forward. I like the idea of a player's association. Every team could send two elected players to represent their schools in each sport each year for a conference to work out these kind of issues. It would actually be an opportunity for them to learn some valuable skills.

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we already have private colleges

Aug 10, 2020, 3:47 PM [ in reply to They have feet, they have negotiaiting power. ]

and they are run like the giant corporations they already are.

3. The bubble that’s popping isn’t American colleges, overall—it’s for-profit colleges.

Enrollment at for-profit institutions quadrupled in the first decade of this century, to 1.7 million, at one point accounting for 10 percent of US college students. But they were targeted by education advocates and the Obama administration for their low graduation rates and high student debt and defaults. These schools, some of which ran downright scummy businesses to collect government aid without providing much of an education, often catered to adults trying to update their skills in a fallow economy. So in the last few years, they have faced a double-whammy: a healthy job market took away their student demand, and a federal-government crackdown took away their business.

The for-profit implosion has been as dramatic as its rise. Between the 2010 peak and 2015, enrollment at private for-profit colleges decreased by about 40 percent, or 600,000 annual students. (In the same period, enrollment at public colleges and universities only decreased by 4 percent.) Federal loans for undergraduates attending for-profit colleges have also declined by 40 percent. The business model of gobbling up federal money in exchange for delivering a worthless education is drying up. That’s a positive development that is playing an outsized role in negative headlines about American higher ed. After all, research has shown that graduates of for-profit schools see no average benefit in the labor market.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/college-bubble-ends/534915/