This is silly I mean, none of this is even remotely disputable.
Here's a Slate piece from 2002, well into Fehr's tenure.
And
here are some of Fehr's accomplishments according to Wikipedia
Michael Weiner was on the job for just four years. He l
ed the union in negotiations that resulted in the 2012 CBA, which seems to have been
notable primarily for allowing testing for HGH, limiting bonuses for international FAs, resetting arbitration eligibility for a class of players that were stripped of it in the 80s, and expanding the playoffs to ten teams.
As to your second comment:
What do you mean by "keeps getting worse"? You appear to be arguing that the 2016 CBA was just one in a string of bad deals agreed to by the union. And you are making that argument because it would support a contention that, well, of course union is blowing this deal, of course they're simply bad at what they do--they've been blowing these deals for years! I'm saying that the evidence clearly indicates that this is not at all the case. As I said multiple times in my prior post, the 2016 CBA was a costly negotiating mistake by the MLBPA, one that was in fact a departure from decade after decade of tough, competent union leadership going all the way back to Marvin Miller. It came at a time of a changing revenue landscape for professional sports. I am saying that nothing that I have seen or read indicates that the union has failed to learn from those mistakes or that there is a better deal out there for the players if only they would get more creative and less stubborn in their thinking. (I have substituted the word "better" for "good" or "fair" to address the concerns raised by you and WBCD.)
In summary and addressing your second concern squarely: There is simply nothing inconsistent with acknowledging that the 2016 deal was a mistake and pointing out that, prior to that one, the union was run quite competently.