CFL PLAYERS DIRECTED NOT TO REPORT TO CAMP ON SUNDAY
The Canadian Football League Players’ Association (CFLPA) bargaining committee has informed the CFLPA membership under contract to seven of nine clubs to not report for CFL training camps on Sunday, May 15. Every effort continues to be made by the CFLPA bargaining committee to reach a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the CFL on a new and fair collective agreement before the current one expires at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, May 15. The CFLPA bargaining committee has directed its members in seven (BC, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal) to participate in a work stoppage immediately – effective Sunday, March 15. Members under contract to clubs in Alberta (Calgary and Edmonton) will join the work stoppage as soon as provincial labour laws allow. In an effort to update its members as soon as possible with clear information, the committee has provided the direction to not report for camps (where provincial labour laws allow) now because there remain too many key items outstanding that must still be negotiated before 12:01 a.m. on Sunday morning. The CFLPA bargaining team has maintained, since early in collective negotiations, that its membership does not wish to attend training camps without a new and fair collective agreement in place before the current agreement expires on May 14 The CFLPA bargaining committee remains prepared to do whatever is necessary and to work as hard as possible to get to a fair, new agreement and get CFLPA members back to work as soon as possible. The CFLPA bargaining committee worked well ahead, starting in 2021, to prepare to negotiate a fair and timely collective deal on behalf of the membership. As is required under provincial labour laws, the collective bargaining process officially began in February 2022 when the CFLPA provided the CFL written notice to bargain. The CFL agreed to meet with the CFLPA for the first time in late March. The CFLPA bargaining committee has remained diligent in its efforts to advance negotiations in a timely and progressive manner.
(CFLPA Communications)
To management
Open the gate. Start camp on time. If it means new players so be it.
If you are young and hungry, old and need a payday, listless with no direction (90% if these idiots)
Harken to the NFL 1987. Cross the line fellas.
The little band leaders doing their Hoffa act are out
You look out for #1. If you are an American cross the line.
Cross the line fir an unfair deal? C’mon man!
Additionally, if employers treated employees fairly, there would be no need for Unions, I don’t like Union shenanigans, but sadly they’re still a necessary evil.
Oh are they now? God forbid you shop your “talent” to a competitor who treats you well. Further to that maybe take your life savings, borrow to the hilt and start a business to help the community, provide service, and create jobs. In your world the inmates can run your asylum. 2 words Gary Bettman. Check the nhl in 1995. Check it in 2022. Here is another one. They are not a real union. They are an association and these men out their livlihoods into the hands of……volunteers. I will give you the modern necesseities of a Canadian League Football… Read more »