2004 Labor Disputes and Strikes - 2004-05 NHL Lockout, Southern California Supermarket Strike of 2003-2004, Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike (Paperback)

Chapters: 2004-05 Nhl Lockout, Southern California Supermarket Strike of 2003-2004, Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The 200405 NHL lockout was a lockout that resulted in the cancellation of what would have been the 88th season of the National Hockey League (NHL). It was the first time the Stanley Cup was not awarded since 1919, and the first time a major professional sports league in North America canceled a complete season because of a labor dispute. The lockout lasted 310 days starting September 16, 2004, the day after the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the NHL and the NHL Players Association (NHLPA) that resolved the 199495 lockout expired. The negotiating teams reached an agreement on July 13, 2005, and the lockout officially ended nine days later on July 22, after both the NHL owners and players ratified the CBA. The NHL, led by Commissioner Gary Bettman, attempted to convince players to accept a salary structure linking player salaries to league revenues, guaranteeing the clubs what the league called cost certainty. According to an NHL-commissioned report prepared by former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt, prior to 200405, NHL clubs spent about 76 percent of their gross revenues on players' salaries a figure far higher than those in other North American sports and collectively lost US$273 million dollars during the 200203 season. On July 21, 2004, the league presented the NHLPA with six concepts to achieve cost certainty. These concepts are believed to have ranged from a hard, or inflexible, salary cap similar to the one used in the National Football League to a centralized salary negotiation system similar to that used in Major League Soccer. According to Bettm...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=93100