N.F.L. Talks Spill Into Frustration as Hopes for Deal Fade
By JUDY BATTISTA
NYT
WASHINGTON — On the eve of the labor bargaining deadline, the N.F.L. appeared to be teetering on the brink of its first work stoppage since 1987. The negotiations on the financial issues that divide owners and players are at a virtual standstill and representatives of both sides are trading barbs in public. By late in the evening, the meltdown in relations seemed nearly complete, playing out on television and on Twitter.
Negotiators met on Thursday for the 15th day of mediated sessions, but members of the players union were irate that they never met directly with the nine members of the owners’ labor committee.
The union leader DeMaurice Smith announced on Twitter that he would update players on negotiations at 2 p.m. Friday, a move interpreted by some in the league as a signal that the union was prepared to walk away from the negotiating table and begin the process of decertifying, which would plunge the N.F.L. into the court system and imperil the start of the 2011 season.
The owners are expected to then lock out the players, who would seek a temporary injunction to block the move.
(More here.)
NYT
WASHINGTON — On the eve of the labor bargaining deadline, the N.F.L. appeared to be teetering on the brink of its first work stoppage since 1987. The negotiations on the financial issues that divide owners and players are at a virtual standstill and representatives of both sides are trading barbs in public. By late in the evening, the meltdown in relations seemed nearly complete, playing out on television and on Twitter.
Negotiators met on Thursday for the 15th day of mediated sessions, but members of the players union were irate that they never met directly with the nine members of the owners’ labor committee.
The union leader DeMaurice Smith announced on Twitter that he would update players on negotiations at 2 p.m. Friday, a move interpreted by some in the league as a signal that the union was prepared to walk away from the negotiating table and begin the process of decertifying, which would plunge the N.F.L. into the court system and imperil the start of the 2011 season.
The owners are expected to then lock out the players, who would seek a temporary injunction to block the move.
(More here.)
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