Reprinted from The Washington Post by Steven Goff on February 5, 2021.
Major League Soccer and its players’ union reached a tentative deal Friday night on amending the collective bargaining agreement, a major step in avoiding a lockout and opening the season on time.
MLS’s Board of Governors and the full player pool still must vote on the matter, but in all likelihood, training camps will open February 22 and the season will start April 3.
Neither side was willing to comment beyond terse statements confirming the tentative deal. …
IATSE International President Matthew Loeb said, “It’s outrageous for the Met to lockout its stagehands during the pandemic, and to leverage them for conditions the company was unable to get in normal times. It’s opportunistic
“If Washington’s grand infrastructure talks collapse, as they likely will,” writes Kimberly Strassel in The Wall Street Journal, “expect the usual finger-pointing from both sides. … Biden’s top agenda item is boosting organized labor—a payoff to the unions that spent big to propel him to victory.