Jerry_Manuel
08-15-2002, 08:23 PM
Strike (http://msn.espn.go.com/mlb/news/2002/0815/1418557.html)
After three days of bargaining produced disagreements rather than a deal, baseball players were all but certain to set an Aug. 30 strike date when their executive board reconvenes Friday.
The board had been ready to set a strike date Monday when it met in Chicago but delayed after management officials suggested a few more days of bargaining without a looming strike date might lead to progress.
But owners then moved little on the key economic issue of a luxury tax on high-payroll teams, leaving the union on track to call for baseball's ninth work stoppage since 1972.
"It wasn't good today. They made another proposal that was fairly meaningless,'' said Atlanta's Tom Glavine, the National League player representative. "I think we're basically sitting back waiting for them to give us a serious offer.''
After three days of bargaining produced disagreements rather than a deal, baseball players were all but certain to set an Aug. 30 strike date when their executive board reconvenes Friday.
The board had been ready to set a strike date Monday when it met in Chicago but delayed after management officials suggested a few more days of bargaining without a looming strike date might lead to progress.
But owners then moved little on the key economic issue of a luxury tax on high-payroll teams, leaving the union on track to call for baseball's ninth work stoppage since 1972.
"It wasn't good today. They made another proposal that was fairly meaningless,'' said Atlanta's Tom Glavine, the National League player representative. "I think we're basically sitting back waiting for them to give us a serious offer.''