Agree or disagree, the players have a right to organize if they, as a majority, decide that they are getting the shaft. (punny....i know)
I'm not saying Barry does it, but being able to hold money (intentionally) over someones head is not a move that motivates people to want to repeat shooting in an event. An example would be as follows:
I win a pro event. $10,000.
My expenses were $4,500. My normal monthly expenses are $2,500.
After all is said and done, I will make $3,000.
If it takes me 6 months to collect it, what is the point? I would've needed that money to recoup my initial investment in the event, plus I'd have to go home and pay the bills. PLUS I have to pay my entries into other events. Instead, I'm sitting there for 6 months, scraping up money to survive, while waiting on 'guaranteed' money that I haven't seen yet.
I doubt that I would look forward to shooting in that event repeatedly just due to the financial hole it would put me in even after I WON the event.
It is one thing to applaud B.B. for holding this event for so long and making it what it is (aside from payment). It is another thing to sit back and say what idiots the pros are for wanting to be paid in a timely fashion.
Honestly, if the ABP could get themselves together to the point where they can be taken seriously, there would be a bunch of people all for it. They just need to realize that there needs to be a means for a justifiable end.
Similarly, I am in the same boat as these guys in the big picture. I'm a union member (wont say which one though

) and I have taken a lot of criticism over it from people that are anti-union to the core. But at the end of the day, all I'm doing is my job. Trying to put a roof over my head and bread on the table with a little job security and nobody can make me feel guilty about that. So if thats what these guys are doing, how could you be against it?
Just my $0.02