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With the Federal Arbitration and Mediation Committee of the intervention, NBA both sides again to open a new round of negotiations. This time the negotiations called the marathon level, from 10 o’clock Tuesday morning, continued until Wednesday morning. According to the CBS side to get the news, again in basketball players in the relevant revenue share to make concessions, agreed to adhere to the previous 53% to 52%.

Federal Arbitration director George – Cohen supervised the whole negotiation process, he has helped the United States has Major League Soccer, Major League Baseball and Football League over the mediation of labor disputes. On Monday, he separately with representatives of employers and employees for a private meeting.

Informed sources broke the news that the players have agreed to accept 52% of the share ratio, but employers still insist on asking for 49%. Although not able to reach agreement, but their differences have been further reduced, in accordance with the previous year’s income $ 4,000,000,000 Alliance estimates that the current gap in the 85 million to 90 million U.S. dollars between.

Since 2005, that the effect of a labor agreement began, the players in the basketball-related share of proceeds has been as high as 57%. After several rounds of negotiations, both sides have made concessions, the team owner agreed not to enforce the implementation of a hard salary cap, while the proportion of players are willing to be divided down to 53%. But since then the situation worsened, and employers in the 50-50 players union’s offer was rejected, increasingly hard-line attitude, David – Stern stressed that the team owners will not agree to labor-sharing proportion of more than 47%. The players union executive director Billy – Hunter adhere to 53% is the maximum acceptable compromise. It is widely believed the delay in reaching a new labor agreement the biggest difference.

Of course, there are other differences between employers and employees need to be addressed, including the luxury tax threshold, the proportion of the contract amount and the middle class to implement the scope of Bird and more. Players are also strongly opposed to employers to implement any of the hard salary cap system in disguise.

The regular season two weeks the game has been canceled. Stern had also stressed that while the negotiations is essential today, if you can not reach agreement, there will be more games to be canceled. But as long as 16 hours of negotiations, at least to narrow their differences, let us stop to see the end of a ray of hope.

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NBA lockout finally showing a positive trend in the near future, employers and employees has been in the 3rd round of talks, although no specific sources, but the prospects seem bright again. Of course, in which the first player made a big concession. According to the “Celtic life,” reported the players were willing to give up $ 3 billion in profits!

It is reported that the news is a former ESPN reporter Chris – Sheridan was first exposed material. “There are close to many problems have been resolved, the situation is better than many people expect,” Sheridan said.

According to Sheridan said the players provide a solution, they are willing in the next six seasons to give up $ 3 billion in interest, that is, the next six seasons, each season, they average less than last season get $ 500 million.

But the attitude of employers is that they want to establish a system whereby each team are profitable labor system, the city where the team that no matter how small, owners can make money, they want to make about 80 players billion dollars in concessions.

Celtic expert Jerome – Roberts said that in his view, the players have come up with the attitude, they seem willing to solve this labor agreement, if from now on, the boss who is willing to sit down and discuss in good faith , then the new NBA season will be safe.

First of all, bosses should stop one thing, which is seeking a 10-year labor agreement period, to stop the pursuit of this goal. 6 years to be a typical conventional collective bargaining agreement of years, but players also want to negotiate in accordance with a period of six years to implement. We want to know why the bosses made a 10-year period, because the global economic downturn are, so they hope the players can be combined with the current situation to allocate salary.

Experts said that if he is a player, he would prefer to find a six-year collective bargaining agreement is less than the number of years. So here you need to praise the attitude of the players, because they have expressed, six years is acceptable. Sheridan also said that, excluding the period 7-10 years after the labor agreement, will further the distance between the two sides closer.

“We believe that if employers can be referred to their players asked to take some gentle, but then the players will be more in line with, and to provide more concessions out of the program,” experts said, “We believe that players will be more prefer to give $ 4 billion in profits, rather than face the result of a lost season, or in the overseas league campaign took less salary. ”

Now the initiative in the hands of bosses, this time employers have to show for it is that you are concerned about whether the fans care about, are you willing to seriously start negotiations. Only positive in the employer’s collective bargaining agreement is an unrealistic fantasy, is utopian in nature, if the Lakers are not in the NBA, MLB, they still have to take out to share television revenue. Players are now willing to make sacrifices, the problem is thrown to the NBA billionaire bosses to see if they are more willing to give fans a full season, or is it insisted on concessions in the end, so that they can give themselves to buy more on a yacht or a summer home?

Bosses, it is time to stand up to do the same again.

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