NFLPA Denies Document Shredding Connected To Lawsuits
The NFLPA during the FY ending February 29 “spent more than $12,000 on document shredding,” according to federal disclosures cited by Charles Chandler of the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER. The NFLPA last year moved its DC offices, and industry experts said that it is “not unusual for a company to purge documents as part of a move.” The NFLPA is “under intense scrutiny for its treatment of retired players, especially those with financial problems and physical disabilities,” and the union and subsidy Players Inc. also are the “subject of a legal battle with a group of retired players.” NFLPA Exec Dir Gene Upshaw Friday, in response to questions about the shredding, wrote in an e-mail, “Your knowingly malicious attempt to link the routine practice of protecting the confidentiality of financial and other proprietary business records (a practice that every prudent business follows) with ongoing litigation and Congressional oversight hearings is libelous.” Upshaw did not respond when asked if the union kept a record of what documents were shredded. The $12,461 the NFLPA paid to Maryland-based Office Shredders would equal 124,610 pounds of paper (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 6/24).
ANTITRUST EXEMPTION: U.S. Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) said that she “isn’t satisfied the [NFL] and union have done enough to assist former players and that she would ‘absolutely’ support threatening removal of the league’s antitrust exemption if necessary to spur action.” Sanchez: “That is sort of the big issue the NFL and NFLPA clearly care most about. If they want this exemption to continue, from my perspective, we want to see them address these concerns that their disabled and retired players have.” Sanchez is the “first Congressperson to publicly link action on retiree issues to the league’s antitrust exemption.” Sanchez said that she might ask NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Upshaw to “testify before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, which she chairs” (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 6/24).
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