Current NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement Expires At Midnight
Source: ESPN
Washington – The NFL and the players’ union sat down Thursday morning for a last-ditch effort to avoid a work stoppage in America’s most popular sport.
With the clock ticking down to the midnight expiration of the league’s collective bargaining agreement, commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL’s negotiating team arrived at a federal mediator’s headquarters about 45 minutes ahead of NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith and his group.
Sources told ESPN the union was prepared to decertify Thursday, barring a last-minute breakthrough. That action means the union no longer would represent the players, who would be giving up their rights under labor law and instead take their chances in court under antitrust law. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because the union had not made its plans public.
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