While you'd think the players union would be up in arms about such price fixing, it isn't.
And if the players union had resisted, Selig could easily have rallied public opinion--and Congress--to his side.
Baseball should appoint a new commissioner and the players union a new leader.
Batsman Mike Hussey says the players will take their guidance from Cricket Australia and players union, the Australian Cricket Association.
The Miami Heat superstar may have irked the players union or commissioner David Stern, but he deserves credit for being honest.
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The league and its players union didn't respond to requests for comment.
But there was another football story on Sunday, one that describes a growing problem for the National Football League and its players union.
While MLB's business isn't perfect, it is probably as healthy as it has been since the rise of the players union in the 1970s.
Shrinking the league by two teams was an idea the owners floated back then, though the power of players union rendered it all but impossible.
Baseball's playoff picture is shaping up as the players union's nightmare.
Selig, along with the players union, has been criticized for acting too slowly to implement rules and adequate testing for the use of performance enhancing drugs.
At the National Football League, the players union has been positioning to decertify, a strategy it successfully used after its failed strike in 1987.
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Dozens of former players are now pressing the NFL and the players union for more pension and disability money, saying their football injuries have crippled them.
Major League Baseball owners are notorious for crying poverty when it comes time to renegotiate with the players union or to pony up for a new ballpark.
Mr. DAVID EPSTEIN (Reporter, Sports Illustrated): And in 2002, Major League Baseball and the players union agreed that the following year, they would have mandatory, random testing.
The players union had argued that Norris-LaGuardia applies only to cases in which the employee side was represented by a union, which they had eliminated by dissolving theirs.
It's out of sight, in boardrooms and over telephones, as Mr. Goodell and league owners are trying to get the players union to agree to a new collective-bargaining agreement.
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By making the docile head of the players union his personal pet, your predecessor has kept the peace without giving players the kind of guarantees other pros take for granted.
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And he told us that he wasn't willing to discuss his 2003 test results, and he said that we'd have to talk to the players union and - which we did.
So shocking was the lack of interest in A-Rod's price tag that the players union even declared publicly it would look into the possibility of collusion (see SportsMoney blog: "Player's Union Way Off Base").
The NFL is teetering on the brink of a disastrous lockout, with owners and the players union agreeing Thursday afternoon to a 24-hour extension of their collective bargaining agreement as they to try to hammer out a new deal.
If McCourt were not to meet his player payroll for May, then MLB would have 48 hours to make the payment before the players union filed a default notice which would make all the unpaid players free agents in 10 days.
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The head of the players union, with whom Dave Pear and other retirees have been - I think the fair word to use is battling - is Gene Upshaw, the former All Pro and Hall of Fame offensive lineman for the Oakland Raiders.
The National Basketball Association and its players union ended a two-day session of marathon talks without a deal but with hope after the league revised its offer to the players and with the union saying it will take the offer to its players next week.
It gives players union head DeMaurice Smith the opportunity to now call out over the battle lines to the owners and the league and discuss ending this dispute from a position of strength, even if he now gives in to some of the concessions that ownership wants.
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Minnesota and Tampa Bay, last year's American League champs, have also enjoyed various successes with low payrolls in recent years, providing plenty of fodder for a players union eager to jump on evidence that having the cash bar set by the free-spending Yankees doesn't wreak havoc on the rest of the league.
U.S. prosecutors have issued a subpoena to the National Basketball Players Association, seeking documents as part of an investigation into the finances of the labor union representing players, the union confirmed on Friday.
The players' union argued that the league had forced a lockout onto the players.
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