National Hockey League sets new conditions in fresh proposal for labour deal -NHL Update
While it seems like the National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA) is unable to make any decision over what their next move should be in dealing with a fresh deadlock that came into play during the past weekend. The league on the other hand, has made a fresh proposal to the players’ association, something they believe will force the process to move forward.
In order to revive hopes, NH commissioner Gary Bettman has brought forward the proposal on behalf of the league’s franchise owners and thinks that it will be able to break the thick and cold ice that has developed between the two so far.
"We decided that in the hopes of moving these negotiations along before the weekend that we would make yet another proposal, which we did," Commissioner Bettman said. "It had meaningful movement in it and it was an attempt to engage the Union finally in trying to make a deal on economic main issues.”
"We made clear in presenting the proposal that this proposal was intended to lead to a deal before the weekend, before the expiration of the current Collective Bargaining Agreement, and that if in fact a deal was not achievable what we had proposed would be off the table. We were quite clear on that."
The current collective bargaining agreement is set to come to an end officially in the upcoming days, (September 15), and is believed to be the signal to another lockout in less than a decade and both sides have failed to make significant progress during the timeframe, something which kicked off in mid-June.
One thing that Bettman is stressing on is that the players reduction in team revenues will have to be made under any such circumstances and they will not go ahead without the labour union agreeing on those critical terms and conditions.
Updates should be expected from the players union in the upcoming days as the league and players union should get back into contact and the association may be making a counterproposal of its own, but any significant progress before the expiration date is highly unlikely.
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