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The NFL Lockout
In 2011 there will most likely be a lockout in the NFL. This means that there will be no football for 2011-2012 season because the NFLPA and the NFL’s owners cannot agree on a contract between each other.
This affects the players because they will not be paid that year.
“The owners absolutely don’t want a lockout,” said Rodger Goodell The negations are ongoing, and although the NFLPA and the owners cannot agree on a deal, neither of them want it. Goodell said the owners want to share more financial data with the players, which Smith said is a must-have in the negotiations process. "There is a willingness to be able to make sure that they see the dollars that are necessary for them to recognize the cost we are asking them to recognize," Goodell said.
On June 3rd 2009, DeMaurice Smith, the head of the NFLPA, was fighting with the NFL owners, and if no agreement is made by March 2010 the upcoming NFL season would be played without a salary cap. This possibility scares both sides a lot for different reasons. This would make each side want to make the deal happen more. If the two sides reach a deal stopping the 2011 lockout; this would stop the no capped 2010. Both sides hope this thing will get settled. The chances of a lockout in 2011 are very high but the fact that there will be no salary cap in the 2010 season scares both the owners and the players. (NFLFanhouse). And even if the lockout seems like a long season away the uncapped season is the next one and if the deal does not get done …No football in 2011.
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I must get this off my chest. How is it that a union can be a union when it suits the union and then decertify and hide behind a judges robes when the members don't get what they want through true collective barganing?
It is appaling to me that the labor centric NLRB supports this kind of gerrymandering of the management/labor relationship to always, always support the unions. I know why, nobody would have a job at the NLRB if there were no unions. OK, that's fine. Then if the players form a union they should be required to act as a union during a contract and in between contracts as well. Bargain collectively and use the tools they have at their disposal. Not abandon the collective and run to court. That is a tool they should not be able to use if they have chosen to be a union.
Guys you can't have it both ways. Are you a unionized work force or are you each your own at will employee? Pick one.
PS - Shame on you Ms. Activist judge for allowing these players to manipulate the system like this. Make them sit in there and negotiate or not have jobs. Don't be their salvation. That's not the job of the court.
I really hope this does not happen..No one at my school has been talking about it, but my friend Rachel and i are worried about this...
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