From TSNDaveNaylor: A closer look at the key issues as CFL, CFLPA head to the bargaining table. MORE:
The Canadian Football League and the CFL Players’ Association will sit down next week to formally begin collective bargaining on a new agreement to replace the current five-year deal that expires on May 15 – the same day training camps are slated to open.
The league’s negotiating team will be led once again by Toronto lawyer Stephen Shamie, who oversaw the negotiation of the last deal in 2014. The players are countering with a heavyweight in Ken Georgetti, the former president of the Canadian Labour Congress who is a seasoned labour negotiator and member of the Order of Canada. The sides are expected to agree to a news blackout when bargaining begins, but that will inevitably be broken weeks from now as frustration mounts on one or both sides.
The players want a bigger voice at the rules committee table to turn issues raised at the health and safety committee into changes that improve the safety of the game.The CFL currently has a salary cap of $5.2 million per team, although teams actually spend significantly more than that because of injured players whose salaries are cap-exempt.
The league’s general managers share the view that the CFL has too much player turnover and would welcome a more restricted system of free agency. But the players aren’t likely to give up their freedom of movement without getting something back. That figures to be a demand that at least some portion of their contracts be guaranteed, so that teams can't just cut a player with years remaining on his contract for nothing.
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