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...prospect distresses many supporters of public education, including the hugely influential teachers' unions. Unions also oppose provisions in many state charter laws that free these special schools from collective bargaining agreements. In California the unions are fighting attempts to expand the state's popular charter schools beyond the current cap of 100. Meanwhile, the Michigan Education Association, having spent a fortune trying to block the state's 1993 charter-school act, is making Republican Governor John Engler's advocacy of that law an issue in his current campaign for re-election...
...apple pie, hot dogs and home runs since 1636. In that benighted year, well before any of the aforementioned institutions -- including the very nation itself -- had been invented, the gentlemen who owned the fishing boats on Richmond Island, off the coast of Maine, imposed the first known salary cap. In their wisdom, they withheld all the wages of their crews for an entire year, a hardball move if ever there was one. Not surprisingly, the fishermen went on strike. Since then there have been tens of thousands of strikes that have helped shape labor law and define the compact between...
What about the salary cap? There are still suits on appeal in New York against the league and its salary cap in particular...
...offseason, the NBA took the Orlando Magic to court over Horace Grant's contract, because they felt it violated the salary cap...
...under a no-strike, no-lockout pledge while negotiating a new collective bargaining deal. This means that even though the players don't have a contract, the basketball season starts November 4. The key issue in the talks -- just as it is throughout pro sports -- is the players' salary cap: The owners want to close loopholes in cap rules, while the players are trying to abolish the cap, adopted...