I've noticed that I'm not the only player rep to get traded.

"There are player reps who deliberately were not invited to this meeting."

"The player reps therefore, voted today to send the players back to work."

I think that player reps around the league are concerned.

I told him my concerns, that the player reps couldn't come and it was an important meeting.

He became the team's player rep in 1984, president of the union in 1989.

"A couple of people were asked point-blank to become the player rep, but they didn't want to do it," he said.

"But every player rep always was afraid he'd be cut," Upshaw said.

"As a player rep, my responsibility is to inform the guys and keep them unified," Martin said after the meeting.

Players who thought they were player reps are told they're not.