Locked out MLB players reject offer of federal mediation

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Locked out MLB players reject offer of federal mediation

By RONALD BLUM
February 5, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — The start of spring training likely will be a casualty of Major League Baseball’s lockout, which will threaten opening day unless the drawn-out talks lead to a deal in less than a month.

After a half-year of bickering over the sport’s economics, baseball’s warring factions couldn’t even agree on whether to have a mediator.

The Major League Baseball Players Association on Friday ruled out a third party intervening, one day after MLB asked for help from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

“Two months after implementing their lockout, and just two days after committing to players that a counterproposal would be made, the owners refused to make a counter, and instead requested mediation,” the union said in a statement.

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. To Heck With Both Sides

It shouldn't be this hard to come to terms, over & over, & over.
Neither side seems to care about a middle ground.
We're 50 years past the owners getting everything they wanted.
Time for both sides to take a lesson from the NBA and realize this is a partnership.
It is not really a labor/management thing anymore. Future success requires working together, not maintaining the adversarial tenor that gets worse every year.
Everybody got rich! I don't know how anybody on either side has a beef.