Potential NFL Lockout Looming On Thursday Night
It's been talked about for over a year, but now the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement is just a few short days away.
It's been talked about for over a year, but now the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement is just a few short days away.
With a lockout looming, NFL rookies could lose out on a lot.
With just days left to come up with a new collective bargaining agreement, the NFL is taking every step to prepare for a lockout. Included in these preparations is a fund to pay players if there is a lockout.
Seven days of mediated negotiations might not have been enough to come up with a new collective bargaining agreement for the NFL. There is less than a week before the current agreement expires.
The biggest issue threatening the next football season is the division of revenue. Neither side will budge, hoping to take a bigger piece of the pie. If there are financial pressures like the owners claim, showing some proof might help ease the players union's stiff stance.
The NFL is facing a possible lockout at the end of next week and only little progress has been made. Thursday, the NFL and players union took a dispute over money made from broadcasting rights before a federal judge.
The NFL and the players' union concluded a week of federally mediated face-to-face meetings to try and reach an deal before the collective bargaining agreement expires next week.
In a week the NFL's collective bargaining agreement is set to expire. And after a week of mediation sessions between the league and the Players' Union, Thursday represents a very important day.
The NFL and its players' union have begun Day 5 of negotiations with a federal mediator.
A six-hour federally mediated negotiation sounds about as much fun as watching paint dry.
Say this for the NFL and its players' union: They are on speaking terms at the moment.
A cancellation of all, or part, of the 2011 NFL season would be devastating for fans.
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With just two weeks left on the current NFL labor deal, progress needs to be made fast. The owners and players union could be making that progress now with a federal mediator in the mix.
On Friday, the NFL and the NFL Players' Union will attempt to solves their differences and find middle ground regarding the labor negotiations that are threatening a lockout of the 2011 season.
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The outlook for the 2011 NFL season may have just gotten a little brighter, both the NFL and players' union have agreed to mediation in their labor negotiations.
March 3 will be the day that the collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and NFL players union expires, and the NFL owners are expected to hold a meeting that very same day.
The NFL labor negotiations are sure to intensify over the next two weeks as the two sides inch closer to the expiration of the current collective barraging agreement.
While the NFL owners and the NFLPA are inching closer and closer to a lockout for next season, it is easy for fans to feel anger towards a league that is forgetting the people are what made the NFL what it is today.
The NFL labor negotiations were just getting off the ground before they hit a roughly $1 billion speed bump. And at this point the public had a pretty good idea of the stances NFL and players union are taking.
Less than a month away from expiration of the collective bargaining agreement the NFL and NFL players union hit a $1 billion snag that resulted in Thursday's meeting between the two sides being canceled.
For a while it seemed like the NFL and the players union had been gaining some momentum in working towards a new collective bargaining agreement that would ensure a 2011 season.
With all games of the 2010 NFL season over, the league executives can now turn their focus to ensuring that there are games to be played in the 2011 season.
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