NFL Refs Association source on three blown calls

[RobertWeathers]

They only have a responsibility to uphold whatever's in the collective bargaining agreement - a contract, not some abstract notion of "quality standards."

A good relationship and partnership between the union and management works to define those. There is nothing abstract about it.

Working conditions, works hours, bonuses, pay increases and benefits are all predicated on the company's success.

If the union doesn't have insight into those, then both sides lose.

 

[RobertWeathers]

A Unions job is to protect their members and make sure the CBA is followed properly. Not matter what the violation and performance is, they must represent the member(s) to the best care when going against the employer.

That is one part of a union's function

 

[Zeus]

My problem with Volin's piece is that his source is apparently a mind reader who knows that the guy who blew the inadvertent whistle got rattled when he saw the play coming his way and that the guy who called Watkins down in bounds was calling the college rules.

The calls were mistakes - that much we know. The ruling that Amendola caught the ball before the whistle was a mistake (because the whistle blew 0.4 seconds before the catch). All the assertions about what was going through people's minds when they made the mistakes a strictly speculation that tends the sensationalize the story.