May 09, 2006
Bargaining Chip
It turns out there's an out on the drug testing policy:
Major league players can scrap the sport's toughened drug rules if they don't have a new labor contract by August, a provision drawing attention from congressmen who pushed for the strengthened policy.
If players and owners don't agree to a new labor contract by Aug. 1, the union has until Aug. 15 to unilaterally end the new drug policy as of Dec. 19, when the current collective bargaining agreement expires.
It's a great bargaining chip for the players. If they scrap the agreement, Congress gets involved, and my guess is the owners don't want that as much as the players. Since the two sides are as close as they've ever been since labor trouble started in the 1970s, this gives everybody a good reason to get the contract done quickly.
Posted by David Pinto at
09:21 PM
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