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Title: Fire NFL Players for Protesting? Union Deals Make That Unlikely
*Author: * Josh Eidelson
*Source:* Bloomberg Date: Sept 26, 2017 Summary: The NFL said it has no plans to discipline players over this weekend’s protests, defying President Donald Trump https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/id/1252249’s declarations https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-09-24/trump-promotes-nfl-boycott-as-stalwart-ally-kraft-leads-pushback that athletes who stayed in the locker room or took a knee during the national anthem should be fired or suspended. “Our players have a right to express themselves,” NFL Executive Vice President Joe Lockhart told https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2017/09/25/no-discipline-for-anthem-skipping-teams-as-nfl-fires-back-at-trump/ reporters Monday. Link: https://bloom.bg/2xL9k3w ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary@work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library
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