{"id":13837,"date":"2025-07-29T04:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/why-are-footballs-player-unions-so-powerless-compared-with-u-s-sports\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:53:51","slug":"why-are-footballs-player-unions-so-powerless-compared-with-u-s-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/why-are-footballs-player-unions-so-powerless-compared-with-u-s-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are football\u2019s player unions so powerless compared with U.S. sports?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222648314-scaled-e1753721838567-1.jpg\"\/>Collective bargaining is a key part of American sports, yet in football, the fragmented nature of the sport makes it hard to unionise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collective bargaining is a key part of American sports, yet in football, the fragmented nature of the sport makes it hard to unionise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13840,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13837\/revisions\/13840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}