1. Unions is not what drive athlete pay, it's competition.
2. Yeah, create a union in a sport with individual athletes who can't afford to sit out and strike and where you need 50 percent to sign for a card check even though the work force is global and speaks dozens of languages and the UFC has high turnover. Gee, I wonder why a union hasn't happened yet. It hasn't even happened in boxing ever, and you think it will happen in the UFC, which historically targets people who try to organize?
Who said it was the UFC's problem?
Never seen an official doc for Bellator insurance, but I can't imagine it's better than the UFC's given how much less revenue they have to play around with. That and the fact they spend so much time on reservation land does not fill me with confidence on the quality of their health care.