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Umm.. If you guys saw daly's press conference the other day. He po inted out that they have had mediators in this thing from almost the beggining.
By law you have to have em.
By law you have to have em.
CalgaryThrasher said:No doubt... If you don't believe the guy... don't visit his blog, or troll his chat.
Problem solved.
Pretty hard to get an impasse declaration past the NLRB when Daly goes on The Score the other day and indicates that the NHL is prepared to move off linkage and owners are pressuring players to contact the union to push Goodenow for a settlement - an unfair labour practise.TKF37 said:Saskin is probably at the meeting for legal reasons -- i.e. if the NHL files for an impasse.
I don't see how talk about officially canceling the season can be looked at as good news. Stop living in denial and face the facts.
and owners are pressuring players to contact the union to push Goodenow for a settlement
That is not how it works.cleduc said:So if they get agreement in DC, do they have to hop on a jet and get agreement from BC, Quebec, Ontario & Alta labour mediators/whatever like they will with replacement players, impasse or other labour issues ? This is nuts.
According to the press conferences last week the US federal mediators have been involved for quite awhile.incawg said:We could have used them about 6 months ago methinks. Too little, too late.
Wetcoaster said:Pretty hard to get an impasse declaration past the NLRB when Daly goes on The Score the other day and indicates that the NHL is prepared to move off linkage and owners are pressuring players to contact the union to push Goodenow for a settlement - an unfair labour practise.
Wetcoaster said:According to the press conferences last week the US federal mediators have been involved for quite awhile.
They will not be that useful since for mediation there has to be somewhere to get to as common ground and that has not been the case given the philosophical divide".
Mike Brophy on the Sportsnet panel reported it along with a claim that many players and several teams were responding to that pressure. He said he assumed the players were burning up the phone lines talking to one another so that was why he had been unable to get them on the telephone?????? He then cited it as proof that the NHLPA was beginning to crumble. Nick Kypreos just shook his head and Bill Watters who has been pro-owner replied that he had seen nothing thus far that the union was wavering even with the gag order lifted.transplant99 said:Of all the nonsense you have posted about this thing...here is another case of it.
This is absolutely made up by you. One source please that suggests the gag order was lifted to "pressure" players to contact the union.
Utter BS.
Mike Brophy on SportsNet.CarlRacki said:You keep saying this as fact, but it's really speculation. Call me crazy, but I doubt the league would so readily abandon the impasse option as you claim nor do I think Bob Batterman would so easily allow the league to walk right into an unfair labor practice claim. You may believe otherwise, and that's fine, but it's speculation on your part.
As for "pressuring players", where has that been stated?
In here, by him.CarlRacki said:As for "pressuring players", where has that been stated?
hockeytown9321 said:Wet-
Isn't it an unfair labor praactice for the employer to contact the employee at all during a lockout?
Wetcoaster said:Mike Brophy on SportsNet.
Wetcoaster said:Mike Brophy on the Sportsnet panel reported it along with a claim that many players and several teams were responding to that pressure. He said he assumed the players were burning up the phone lines talking to one another so that was why he had been unable to get them on the telephone?????? He then cited it as proof that the NHLPA was beginning to crumble. Nick Kypreos just shook his head and Bill Watters who has been pro-owner replied that he had seen nothing thus far that the union was wavering even with the gag order lifted.
There is your source.
CarlRacki said:So, just so we're clear, you';e saying it's true because a guy on Sportsnet believes it might be true because it would explain why he couldn't get a hold of some of his sources?
I'm not a labor attorney, but I doubt that would hold up in front of the NLRB.
incawg said:Both the NHL and the PA have resisted using any from of mediation from the get-go. Their involvement thus far has been strictly for legal purpases. Philisophical divide or not, they should have been involved sooner and in a much greater capacity. Heck, one of the goals of mediation is to find the common ground that has thus far been elusive.