Potential New Strategy in Looming CBA Negotiations

The labor negotiations could be moving into an untenable situation for the owners, and MLB is now preparing to take their argument to federal courts to combat the players proposed action of initiating what is referred to as a disclaimer of interest. This action effectively ends the MLBPA acting as a Labor Union negotiating labor issues. Instead, the MLBPA would move from a Labor Union to a Trade Association.

In effect, this strategy would decertify the Union allowing the players to sue MLB on antitrust grounds, and argue that outside of a collective bargaining framework, the lockout is an illegal group boycott. The owners could very well lose that antitrust exemption. Losing that exemption…