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MLB players, owners sign agreement

MLB players, owners sign agreement

Baseball players and owners have signed an agreement for a new labor contract, a deal that starts blood testing on human growth hormone and expands the playoffs to 10 teams by 2013.

Senh: That was fast. Still waiting for the NBA to sign theirs.

 

Person familiar with plans: NBA to cancel training camps, some preseason games as talks stall

Person familiar with plans: NBA to cancel training camps, some preseason games as talks stall

No labor deal, no training camps and no telling what else the NBA could lose. The lockout is about to start inflicting damage on the preseason schedule — and neither players nor owners can say what will happen to the real games. The league will cancel training camps and some exhibition games Friday after failing to reach a new collective bargaining agreement with its players, a person with knowledge of the plans told The Associated Press on Thursday on condition of anonymity because the league had yet to announce its plans.

 

GM-UAW agree on new contract

General Motors Co. and the United Auto Workers have reached an agreement on a new contract....

 

GM, UAW Deal Possible Today

General Motors and the United Auto Workers union are in the "final stage" of negotiations on a new labor contract and a deal could be struck as soon as Friday.

 

45,000 Verizon workers go on strike over contract

Tens of thousands of unionized Verizon Communications Inc. workers from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., went on strike early Sunday after they failed to agree on a new labor contract with the telecommunications company.

 

NFL, players face expiration of labor contract

NFL, players face expiration of labor contract

With the NFL on the brink of its first work stoppage in nearly a quarter of a century, Commissioner Roger Goodell and union head DeMaurice Smith met at a federal mediator's office Friday, the day the league's twice-extended labor contract was set to expire....

 

Major League Baseball, umpires reach 5-year deal

Major League Baseball, umpires reach 5-year deal

Major League Baseball and its umpires have reached an agreement on a five-year labor contract running through December 2014....

 

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