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"How will the labor peace be achieved?"



Got this off: www.oregonian.com/sports/spst/9807/sp070101.html.
Thought you guys might be interested.


>      How will labor peace be achieved?
>      "This is the issue that will absolutely break the backs of the
>owners: Are guaranteed contracts enforceable during a lockout?" Fegan
>said. (Dan Fegan is Jerome Kersey's agent.) "If they are, the owners would
>be obligated to pay more than a half-billion dollars in player salaries
>(next season), and would they do that when they're not generating any
>revenue?"
>      Herb Rudoy, the agent for free agent Arvydas Sabonis, predicted that
>the solution will come after the players decertify their union.
>      "More than 90 percent of the players signed petitions this spring
>giving the union's executive committee the power to decertify."
>      "Decertification is the arrow that will force the league to
>negotiate; this is not going to be collectively bargained," Rudoy said.
>      "I think the union will decertify within 60 days, after the two
>sides have reached a legal impasse," he said. "The National Labor
>Relations Board would have to set the election to decertify. The union
>would reinvent itself as some kind of a trade organization, with lawyers
>for the players negotiating for them."
>      "Then this thing will be over rather quickly, because you will have
>left labor law and gotten into antitrust law, where everything the league
>does, such as the draft, is a violation."

Yes?...no?....make any sense?

Paul M