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...collection of 32 individual businesses. The answer to this question has repercussions beyond the production of licensed merchandise. If the NFL is considered a single entity, it would largely be exempt from antitrust laws, giving the league not only continued right to grant exclusive licenses for team apparel but also the ability to make decisions on a leaguewide basis. This opens the door to the NFL - rather than individual teams - determining things like ticket prices and player salaries. Indeed, the bargaining power of the NFL Players Union is based on antitrust legislation that the league would largely be immune...
...issue of illegal immigration has never been a simple one, nor has the problem been particularly well served by heavy-handed policy. But this is precisely the type of action that the Obama administration has espoused by forcing model employer American Apparel to dismiss 1,800 unauthorized workers. Such a move is tremendously shortsighted and does not represent a refined and intelligent policy, but rather a Band-Aid fix to a problem that needed a suture a long time...
...least benefit Americans who are currently searching for work due to the recession. Although the expertise that many illegal immigrants have acquired during the tenure of their employment cannot immediately be transferred to their legal replacements, many of the jobs affected—such as those in the American Apparel factory—involve skills that can easily be taught...
Some argue that the government should target sweatshops instead of a company like American Apparel, which pays high wages and touts its humane working conditions. But, in July, Homeland Security released a list of 652 companies that it would be auditing. To make an exception for American Apparel would be to deliberately not enforce a law and would send the wrong message to the other firms on the list. Now, all companies throughout the United States understand that the government will hold them responsible for hiring workers with proper documentation, rather than illegal immigrants...
...plight of illegal immigrants, one must remember that they are illegal, and hiring them is illegal as well. If the laws are on the books, they should be enforced. As a company that takes justifiable pride in all of its clothes being made in the USA, American Apparel should now be proud that all of its workers will be legal in the USA as well...