Baseball labor agreement near? NBA gets antitrust claim filed
November 16, 2011
Smooth sailing for Baseball CBA?
Smooth sailing for Baseball CBA?
Over the last forty years it was Baseball that produced some of the most contentious labor battles of any professional sport. Now Major League Baseball owners and players have quietly gone about their business and appear close to reaching a new labor agreement. One of the issues that still needs to be resolved is setting a spending limit for teams signing players from the June amateur draft.
Executive Director of the MLBPA Michael Weiner who replaced Donald Fehr deserves much credit for smoothly taking over the reins of the union.
For more on Michael Weiner, click on this link and this profile from two years ago.
NBA players file antitrust suit in Land of 10,000 Lakes
Where else but Minnesota would you expect the NBA players to file their antitrust suit against the NBA? Taking a page from the NFLPA and their success in Minneapolis, Minnesota the NBA players filed their complaint in Federal court on Tuesday. Claiming that the lockout "constitutes an illegal group boycott, price-fixing agreement, and/or restraint of trade in violation of the Sherman Act" the union finally took the offensive against the owners. If this complaint had been filed two months ago, the NBA season might have already been underway.
But that's not all - the NBAPA will also file a similar complaint in California. Claiming that the class is“so numerous and geographically so widely dispersed that joinder of all members is impracticable". thus the need for the class-action suit to be divided into sub-classes. Will this allow settlement talks to progress now that the players have some leverage or will it pave the way for 2011-12 to be the season of no basketball at all?
But that's not all - the NBAPA will also file a similar complaint in California. Claiming that the class is“so numerous and geographically so widely dispersed that joinder of all members is impracticable". thus the need for the class-action suit to be divided into sub-classes. Will this allow settlement talks to progress now that the players have some leverage or will it pave the way for 2011-12 to be the season of no basketball at all?
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