Similarly, the complex scheme by which individual salaries in the NFL are set, which involves, inter alia, the NFL draft, league-wide salary pools for rookies, team salary caps, and free agency, was built around the longstanding restraint on the market for entering players imposed by the eligibility rules and the related expectations about the average career length of NFL players.. The eligibility rules in other words cannot be viewed in isolation, because their elimination might well alter certain assumptions underlying the collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and its players union. Furthermore, by reducing competition in the market for entering players, the eligibility rules-also affect the job security of veteran players. See Fibreboard, 379 U.S. at 210-15, 85 S.Ct. 398 (<HOLDING>); see also Intercontinental Container Transp.
holding union members state law claims for defamation against union preempted recognizing union members vital concern in preserving jobs for union members recognizing that union members interests are adequately represented by the union holding that a rico action by union members was properly dismissed where any financial improprieties occurred with union funds and directly injured solely the union holding that the plaintiffs acted on behalf of all union members and reimbursing the attorneys fees from the union treasury such that all union members in effect equally contributed to the costs of litigation