Word: donlan
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...budget of a dozen states-the philosophical difference on how that money should be allocated is a gulf without horizons. Union Head Ed Garvey is insistent that the players be paid out of a union-managed fund, and the owners, through the person of tough-guy Labor Expert Jack Donlan, are adamant that the policy of individual negotiations continue. Those charming fellows on the periphery of sport known as "player agents" are behind the owners this time 100%, less their customary commission, probably. Donlan says that management stands ready to part with just about as much money as the union...
Such complexities might threaten to cause a computer overload, but even worse, say the owners, is that the plan amounts to paying players like pieceworkers in a ball-bearing factory. Says the N.F.L.'s chief negotiator, Jack Donlan: "The idea of the union distributing wages, becoming in effect partners of the owners', is alien to American business." It is certainly alien to the way the N.F.L. has done business. The owners propose to continue their pattern of negotiating individual contracts, but promise that a lot more money will be paid out when all those contracts are added...
...owners' real reason for red-baiting the union is that the players' proposal, if written into a contract, would constitute a double invasion of the owners' sacrosanct "managerial prerogatives." As the NFL's chief negotiator, Jack Donlan, told CBS Radio: "We're talking about money. They're talking about control...
Jiggetts blames management council Executive director Jack Donlan's "uncompromising" attitude for the impasse. "There really hasn't been any bargaining," Jiggetts says. "Donlan's proposal was just the status quo, and that's what we're striking against...
...owners are no less strident, chewing over the idea of a lockout, professing to be negotiating while mailing the players how-to instructions on quitting a union. In football, owners can still regard the athletes lightly, confident they will never find a truly competitive market for their services. Jack Donlan, executive director of the management