{"id":8238,"date":"2011-03-12T13:06:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T17:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8238"},"modified":"2011-03-12T13:06:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T17:06:43","slug":"nfl-players-union-moves-to-decertify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/nfl-players-union-moves-to-decertify\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Players’ union moves to decertify"},"content":{"rendered":"

The negotiations between the NFL and the players’ union went down to the wire and then past it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A week of extended negotiations between the National Football League and the NFL Players Association have failed to produce a new labor contract.<\/p>\n

The team owners have threatened to lock out the players — a move that could affect the scheduled start of the season this coming fall. There is even a chance that the entire season could be lost. Although most experts see that as unlikely, rating agency Standard & Poor’s has said it believes the owners have the financial wherewithal to go a full year without games being played.<\/p>\n

With the failure of the talks, the union immediately moved to decertify itself Friday afternoon. That opened the door for a antitrust lawsuit against the league by some of the union’s star players, including quarterbacks Drew Brees, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.<\/p>\n

The players hope to win their arguments in court rather than at the negotiating table. But now that there is no longer a union to negotiate with the owners, resuming talks and reaching a new agreement are much more problematic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The negotiations between the NFL and the players’ union went down to the wire and then past it: A week of extended negotiations between the National Football League and the NFL Players Association have failed to produce a new labor contract. The team owners have threatened to lock out the players — a move that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[179,392],"class_list":["post-8238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-nfl","tag-unions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-28S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8239,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions\/8239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}