Next summer, the NBA needs to renegotiate its collective bargaining agreement with the players. It would seem that this would be the critical time to have a union, but players across the NBA are starting to vote to disband the Players Association, according to Sports Business Journal.
"Players for at least two NBA clubs have voted unanimously to authorize decertification after meeting with NBPA Executive Director Billy Hunter," Sports Business Journal reports.
Hunter is visiting each team as he does every fall and asking the players for the vote as a strategic countermeasure if the league locks out players when the CBA expires in June, the Journal notes.
As a union, the Players Association cannot sue the NBA for its members under the labor exemption to antitrust laws, the Journal reports. But if it became a trade organization rather than a union, it could sue the NBA under U.S. antitrust laws and contend that the league was conducting a group boycott, which is illegal, the site reports.
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