In November $1989,$ the NFL Players Association, the union for NFL players, disbanded. Why?

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The union was bankrupt due to failed strikes in $1982$ and $1987.$

The players were upset with the union$$s lack of ability to gain full free agency for its member and wanted to bring in new leadership.

The union wanted to remove the NFL$$s non$-$statutory labor exemption and pursue an antitrust claim against the league. This could only be done by decertifying the union.

The court had declared in Powell v$.$ NFL $(1987)$ that union was guilty of conspiring against the NFL in order to raise wages.