by Tula Connell, Apr 29, 2011
This just in. According to CNN:
A Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the National Football League (NFL) request to restore a lockout, according to a court clerk.
The temporary stay of an April 25 lower court order allows NFL owners to again suspend football operations as they seek to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Players Association (NFLPA).
If the players are locked out when the season starts in September, it would be the first NFL work stoppage since 1987.
A New Yorker article has pointed out what’s behind the owners’ lockout of the players:
It’s about very rich businessmen thinking that they should be even richer.
Read requests from the NFLPA to owners seeking financial information to back the owners’ claims that they are losing money and need to cut players’ pay $1 billion. The owners refused.
Here’s a listing of the owners’ final demands that they characterized as a meet-in-the middle compromise offer. But in fact was little different from their long-standing give-back demands.
