The union audits the owners' books every year--a condition of the last collective-bargaining agreement.
They sued the league for antitrust violations in federal court just hours before the collective-bargaining agreement expired.
"We signed this new collective-bargaining agreement in 2006 we haven't had a stadium built since then, " says Mr. Goodell.
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The league's current collective-bargaining agreement is due to expire after the 2006-07 season.
These outcomes are inevitable under any approach other than a comprehensive collective-bargaining agreement.
He reported to camp last season on time that is, on the day the sport's collective-bargaining agreement required him to report.
Further complicating matters is the league's collective-bargaining agreement, which calls for increasingly stiffer luxury taxes over the next two seasons.
GM's collective-bargaining agreement with 125, 000 workers, or 63% of its North American employees organized by the United Auto Workers, expires in mid-September.
Under this vision, players and fans would have none of the protections or benefits that only a union (through a collective-bargaining agreement) can deliver.
Proposing to revise the collective-bargaining agreement in order to shift the pay scale toward veterans and away from rookies is, as far as labor negotiations go, relatively inoffensive.
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It's come to this, Mr. Goodell says as we sit in his midtown Manhattan office, because the owners made the mistake of signing a bad collective-bargaining agreement in 2006.
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It's out of sight, in boardrooms and over telephones, as Mr. Goodell and league owners are trying to get the players union to agree to a new collective-bargaining agreement.
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In an environment where they are essentially independent contractors, many players would likely lose significant benefits and other protections previously provided on a collective basis as part of the union-negotiated collective-bargaining agreement.
That's probably why he's playing serious hardball during the current tense round of negotiations over the league's collective-bargaining agreement, the result being a 72-hour postponement of the free-agent shopping season that was to have begun on Monday.
PHILADELPHIA In the first courtroom showdown between the National Football League and retired players seeking damages over head injuries, NFL lawyers argued Tuesday that the matter should be handled out of court as part of the league's collective-bargaining agreement.
Nearly a month after negotiations for a new collective-bargaining agreement collapsed, lawyers for the NFL and the league's players association will square off in court Wednesday in a crucial hearing that will help determine whether there will be a 2011 season.
Those cases were ultimately settled in 1992 and 1993 when the league and the players association came up with a collective-bargaining agreement that provided players with a path to free agency but included a strict limit of how much each team could spend on player salaries.
Rather than address the challenge of improving the collective-bargaining agreement for the benefit of the game, the union-financed lawsuit attacks virtually every aspect of the current system including the draft, the salary cap and free-agency rules, which collectively have been responsible for the quality and popularity of the game for nearly two decades.
This is the lawsuit that attempted to reinstate former SAG National Executive Director Doug Allen and undo ratification of the SAG-AMPTP collective bargaining agreement.
Similarly, preserving and strengthening the salary cap that prevents rich teams from outspending poorer ones was Murphy's primary concern in the discussions that led to the new ten-year collective bargaining agreement with the players' association.
After the 2005 cattle-prodding by Congress, Selig and Fehr opened their collective bargaining agreement twice to tighten the sport's anti-doping program.
Despite a new and hard-fought players' collective bargaining agreement and dynamic young stars like Alexander Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby, the NHL is being held back by floundering teams like the Phoenix Coyotes, which has filed for bankruptcy protection.
In 2006, NFL owners voted 30-2 to extend the collective bargaining agreement.
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The NFL is teetering on the brink of a disastrous lockout, with owners and the players union agreeing Thursday afternoon to a 24-hour extension of their collective bargaining agreement as they to try to hammer out a new deal.
On the ice, the National Hockey League has never been more competitive than over the course of its last collective bargaining agreement, which began with the 2005-06 season.
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Because all grievances that stem from drug-related cases must be handled under the collective bargaining agreement, unlike in a regular breach of contract suit, the employer can not simply single out individualized clauses in the employee agreement as a bonafide legal argument to get out of the contract.
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And with a new collective bargaining agreement in place that should influence high-spending teams to think twice before incurring massive luxury tax bills, Mr. Stern presided over a final round of labor negotiations that may yield a greater degree of competitive balance to the sport that was previously lacking in historical comparison with other North American leagues.
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The National Hockey League has a unique penchant for self-destructiveness in the way it conducts negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
The NFL will present a proposal including the 18-game season and a more modest rollback of the percentage share allocated to players from the previous collective bargaining agreement.
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Baseball's collective bargaining agreement not only mandates first class jet and travel accommodations for road trips "if practicable"--any exception that has players flying coach must include a minimum of three seats per two players--but also to spring training in February and back to their off-season homes in October.
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