Maybe it just my station in life, but it hard to believe I be attending my 40th class reunion in 2013. When I really think about it, the early seem like yesterday and what even more astonishing I can actually remember how the future looked to me back then. Was it the same for the guy celebrating a 40th reunion in 1973, looking back at 1933? I can remember the images that flashed through my mind when the phrase century rolled off my lips.And it bolsters other unions' claims: "Never before has so much media attention been paid to a labor dispute involving so few actual laborers the 120 NFL referees," says Karl Taro Greenfeld at Bloomberg Businessweek. But the controversy also "reflects a larger trend in the American workplace." In addition to a dispute over pensions, the referees' union is rejecting a strict performance metric that is similar to a recent proposal to evaluate Chicago teachers on student test scores. Both the refs and teachers say such rigid proposa