Re: Dwight Jaynes Provides An Excellent Synopsis Of The Issues

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

Here's an argument I've heard many times before that simply doesn't hold 
water.  Although, to be fair, the article voices many of the arguments 
on both sides of the issues.

My problem with this one is that this is the case in any service 
industry.  Doctors, teachers, firemen and many software professionals 
could all rightly claim to be their "company's product".  I don't see 
them receiving 60% of their company's revenues.  The real leverage that 
NBA players have is that there aren't a lot of people who can perform 
their job at the level that they do.  It is a supply and demand issue.  
And the CBA has everything to do with maintaining the balance between 
supply and demand in what Joe H. quite rightly referred to as an 
"imperfect" economy.

Jim

>Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 06:53:45 -0500
>From: Way Of The Ray <wayray@ix.netcom.com>
>CC: celtics@igtc.com
>Subject: Dwight Jaynes Provides An Excellent Synopsis Of The Issues
>
>                                              
     
>                       By Dwight Jaynes                       
>                       Columnist                                 
>                       The Oregonian                                   

>                       Line one, you're on the air: "Yeah, hey,            
>                                                                            
>                       there is no way the employees are going >                       
to get more than 50 percent of the profits
>                       in my business, like the players expect to 
>                       get from the NBA . . . "
>                                                     
>                       Fine, except your employees are probably    
>                       disposable. Your product doesn't change    
>                                                                   
>                       much even when your employees do. In sports
>                       and entertainment, the employees are         
>                       essentially the product. They are going to 
>                       get a much bigger portion of the revenue,
>                       and they are entitled to it. It's the exact
>                       percentage that needs to be negotiated.     
>


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