Labor Relations Board investigating NFLPA

[Mr. Scot]

...based on a complaint from the league (USA Today)

Decertified or not, the NFL Players Association might still be subject to action by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), stemming from an unfair labor practices charge by the NFL.

As the NFLPA disclaimed its interest as a collective bargaining agent when labor talks collapsed Friday, effectively becoming a trade association, the NFL amended its previous charge by filing with the NLRB's Region 2 office in New York.

The gist of the NFL's charge is that the NFLPA has unfairly used decertification as a negotiating strategy for securing a better labor deal. "We're not a union anymore," president Kevin Mawae said Monday. "So any case before the NLRB is trumped by our decertification. So it doesn't matter."

Not true, according to NLRB spokesperson Nancy Cleeland. "It doesn't change what (allegedly) happened," Cleeland told USA TODAY on Tuesday. "The charge is still being investigated. By (the NFL) amending the charge, obviously, they still think it's live."

The former NFLPA guys think nothing will come of it, but for the moment it's in play.

[teeray]

[Mr. Scot]

Drama? Plenty.

Football? No :(

I'd have expected to already had two or three free agent signings to argue about by this point.

[The Other Colbert]

It's okay because OCHOCINCO is trying out for the MLS...

[Mr. Scot]

Get back to me when he tries out for the UFC.

(or goes into the ring with Tom Zbikowski)

[The Other Colbert]

Get back to me when he tries out for the UFC.

(or goes into the ring with Tom Zbikowski)

he would get destroyed

[Montsta]

So the NFLPA* exists when convenient, and doesn't when it's not.

Does that about sum up the 2011 offseason?

[Mr. Scot]

There's also the irony of the NFL looking to the government for help.

Government involvement isn't exactly one of the league's favorite options.

[Snake]

Really with the NFLPA pocket man Dorty out of the way they could have a case. It does seem that the NFLPA was not negotiating and Gov intervention would be the quickest way to get back to football.

[Snake]

Lets face it,the NFL opened there books to 5 years back. I mean what more is the gov going to do to them.

[YourMomsLover]

This is definitely one thing Obama would be willing to fix.

[Ricky Spanish]

once again:

fuck. this. shit.

[SCP]

This is definitely one thing Obama would be willing to fix.

Good lord lets hope not. We might end up with touch soccer. Before tailgating, fans would be mandated by the gubment to pick up and drop players off at the stadium in tax funded hybrid minivans.

Snake_Fist has it right. 5 years is plenty for that ass clown Dmo Smith. Players and their reps are a joke.