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NFL Owners Are Trying to Gut Workers Compensation For Their Players.
The greed knows no bounds.
Anyone who knows me knows I absolutely love football. As I write this the legal tampering period heading into free agency has begun, and as a Buffalo Bills fan I’ve been eagerly looking forward to seeing who the Bills manage to sign and how much cap space they’re able to free up. But there’s been some other NFL news in recent days that has some pundits sounding the alarm, and is unfortunately likely to be indicative of a trend to come.
The Cincinnati Bengals are trying to gut worker compensation benefits.
Mike Florio with NBC Sports writes:
“…In an email sent to all NFLPA members, a copy of which PFT has obtained, the union has alerted players that “Bengals ownership is attempting to strip all athletes in Ohio of their workers’ compensation benefits.”
The email contends that the Bengals have asked the Ohio legislature to restrict “Bengals and Browns players of their workers’ compensation benefits that all other employees in the State of Ohio are entitled to for the injuries they suffer at work. . . . Simply put, it is an attack on your rights as an American and a player covered by the CBA. They are doing it to increase their profit.”…”
