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NFL, NFL Players Association agree to another extension

By Chip Angeles
March 4, 2011 - 3:02 pm
Current collective bargaining agreement will remain in place for another week.

Just 24-hours after the NFL and NFL Players Assocation agreed to a one-day extension of the current collective bargaining agreement the two sides agreed to another extension, this time for seven days, according to ESPN. The current CBA will now expire on Friday, March 11 at midnight.

If the two groups had not agreed to an extension the CBA would have expired, leading to the first work stoppage in the NFL since 1987. NFL owners would have locked out NFL players, in effect barring them from their team' s facilities.

The NFLPA would have countered by decertifying. In effect, the NFLPA would cease to be a union and individual players would be free to sue the NFL and file for an injunction to prevent a lockout.

Some key issues in crafting a new CBA include dividing the $9 billion in revenue the NFL generates a year, a possible move from a 16-game regular season to 18-games, a rookie wage scale and health benefits for retired players.

Negotiations will begin again on Monday, March 7 under the continued supervision of federal mediator George Cohen. This gives both sides the weekend to examine each others' latest CBA proposals.

The seven-day CBA extension includes a "tolling agreement" meaning no player transactions can take place during the extension.

 

 

 

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