In November 1989, the NFL Players Association, the union for NFL players, disbanded. Why?
A) The union was bankrupt due to failed strikes in 1982 and 1987.
B) The players were upset with the union's lack of ability to gain full free agency for its member and wanted to bring in new leadership.
C) The union wanted to remove the NFL's nonstatutory labor exemption and pursue an antitrust claim against the league. This could only be done by decertifying the union.
D) The court had declared in Powell v. NFL 1987) that union was guilty of conspiring against the NFL in order to raise wages.
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