Word: lockout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...players boast impressive credentials. Despite recent complaints against the selfishness of some NBA players, basketball is perfectly poised to resurrect the image of sports and sports figures which was damaged by the hockey lockout and baseball strike. The current NBA playoffs provide the perfect forum for unveiling the new savior of American sports...
...right back where it started last August, with the same old system in place and no sign of a new agreement. The distrust between union head Don Fehr and acting commissioner Bud Selig is still so vehement that they can't even agree on a mutual no-strike, no-lockout pledge for this season...
...National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) told baseball owners it will issue an unfair labor practice complaint against them, a move that could, ironically, turn the player's strike into a lockout. The board, created 60 years ago to settle disputes between workers and management over federal labor laws, said this morning that team owners "did not properly follow the rules of collective bargaining" when they eliminated salary arbitration and rules relating to free agency last year. The complaint may lead to a court injunction reinstating pre-strike work rules. But TIME sportswriter Steve Wulf notes that the owners may then...
...better than nothing. After weeks of intensive and often acrimonious negotiation, the National Hockey League's owners and players hammered out a six-year pact and brought the sport's 103-day lockout to an end. Fans will get a curtailed 48-game season (instead of the traditional 84). Although the owners failed to win a salary cap, they did get some restrictions on the eligibility of free agents...
...lockout was the immediate result of a dispute between the Park Service and the King family over a new visitor center being built on the Martin Luther King historic site -- a 23-acre parcel that encompasses the birth home, the Ebenezer Baptist Church, King's tomb and the family-run King Center for Nonviolent Social Change. But in a broader sense, it was symbolic of the troubles that have beset the legacy of the slain civil rights leader in his hometown even as the U.S. prepares to celebrate his birthday next week...