Word: nflpa
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...most sports fans, the eight-day-old football strike is just a Sunday afternoon inconvenience. But to Dan Jiggets '76, a tackle for the Chicago Bears and vice-president of the National Football League Players' Association (NFLPA), the strike marks the culmination of a decades-long struggle for equity in professional football...
...contract talks were scheduled for tomorrow in Washington after management rejected NFLPA Executive Director Ed Garvey's call for a special meeting yesterday...
...billion television revenues to the players, who would then distribute the money among themselves according to a negotiated wage scale based in part on player seniority. The owners have flatly rejected this proposal, offering instead a package of salary increases and so-called "career-adjustment bonuses" for more experienced NFLPA members...
Union leader Jiggetts is unimpressed by reports that some players were unhappy with the NFLPA's bargaining stance. Once Miami Dolphins veteran, Bob Keuchenberg, told The New York Times that Garvey was being "ridiculous" in pressing the demand for a union-controlled wage fund...
...Chrysler worker can be replaced and no one will notice or care. But a Terry Bradshaw, a James Jefferson or even a Tim Fox are more marketable and valuable commodities. So, whe NFLPA players' representative Ed Garvey suggests that NFL football players are, indeed entertainers and are similar to personalities like Frank Sinatra, he has made a valuable point...