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...week of intense negotiations over the major league baseball strike collapsed this afternoon, killing hopes of a compromise before a team owners' deadline Thursday to impose a controversial cap on players' salaries. Barring a surprise, today's failure to see eye-to-eye makes it likely the players' union will challenge the cap before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), prompting lengthy proceedings and increasing the likelihood that teams will go to spring training with replacement players. Meanwhile, the NLRB hours earlier said it would charge owners with failure to bargain in good faith and with discriminating against union members...
...Baseball is making progress, at least in some warped sense. The players rejected the owners' latest proposal, so all you salary cap fans might get your wish before Christmas...
...right, Roger Clemens says he will never play again if there is a salary cap. But the game will probably go on, even if they have to go with minor leaguers...
Striking major league baseball players tonight moved toward rejection of Sunday's new owners' proposal, making it likely they'll impose a salary cap later this week. The owners' gambit: Replace their escalating payroll tax idea with a flat tax -- a second alternative to the hated salary cap. Owners' negotiator John Harrington said yesterday the plan was a "substantial move," but players' union head Donald Fehr may have foreshadowed tonight's answer over the weekend: "At first blush, it appears their new proposal contains virtually all the elements of the salary cap." BTW: Strikers' fears of being replaced by foreign...
Welfare laws that would stop benefits for recipients after two years, enforce enrollment in work programs and cap spending...