Compromise needed from Players side according to Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly -NHL Update
It has been over a week since the National Hockey League (NHL) and Players’ Association sat down to discuss what their next set of steps should be in terms of working out a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) in order to get the regular season back
up and running.
Recently coming out, NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly stated that the labour union will have to make compromises in order to get the labour deal implemented along with the assurance of the league also setting out terms and conditions on which they will
deviate from their stance.
"I'm sure it will," Daly said, according to tampabay.com. "I guess what I'm trying to say is we have made compromise already. We continually try to signal to them that we are in a negotiation, and so far they haven't negotiated with us."
According to their recent statements, the NHL seemed to be totally against the fans in the sense that they did not care how long the lockout lasted but Daly also termed that to be totally untrue.
"I understand the perception," Daly added. "What we've had a lack of is any degree of compromise or movement from the players association. They've really made one proposal, and they haven't moved off the one proposal. And in any negotiation, it's not really
a negotiation if one side is making all the proposals and the other side is just waiting until they get what they want."
The previous labour deal which came about after the 2004-2005 lockout had players give up 24 percent of their salaries and what really wrecked havoc again this time around was that the league was asking for another 10 percent share cut in the labour union’s
share of team revenue.
It is quite clear from the players’ side that they are not willing to go lightly on any of the terms and conditions anymore and what a mediator to decide the whole case as they have lost trust in the league with players coming out in the open and declaring
franchise owners as ‘untrustworthy’.
Updates should be expected in the upcoming days.
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