So, seven different barons, who are sort of like plantation owners, rule this country.
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Discussing the taut labor negotiations between the league and the union, he had told The Washington Post that the league was treating the players "like plantation workers".
In an interview with The Washington Post, Jeffrey Kessler — the union's outside counsel and its lead negotiator — accused the league of treating players "like plantation workers".
He blamed Mr. Kessler — a pugnacious antitrust lawyer who recently accused Mr. Stern of treating players "like plantation workers" — for pushing the union toward dissolution.
Just last week, a lawyer for the players, Jeffrey Kessler, complained about the owners to the Washington Post, saying that "instead of treating the players like partners, they're treating them like plantation workers".
Leonard Calandriello, a retired banker in Chandler, Ariz., said he felt "entitled" to $500,000 for the 1,975-square-foot 1,975-square-foot 1,975-square-footr $470,000, town upgraded withouseancements like plantation shetters and a travertine patio, spending another $30,000.
It was while discussing the league's ultimatum that Kessler made his comments to The Post. "To present that in the context of 'take it or leave it,' in our view, that is not good faith," Kessler told The Post. "Instead of treating the players like partners, they're treating them like plantation workers".
In early November, Kessler criticized the owners' "take it or leave it" bargaining approach: "instead of treating the players like partners, they're treating them like plantation workers".
There are still prisons in the South that use chain-gang labor, and in recent years people have called it out as looking uncomfortably like plantation work.
