CBA voting begins

Posted by Mike Florio on March 5, 2020, 9:18 AM EST
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The waiting game has ended. Now comes the voting.

Per a league source, voting has indeed opened on the new labor deal. All dues-paying members of the NFL Players Association from the 2019 season will be eligible to vote. The voting with occur electronically, and the votes will be reviewed by an independent auditor.

The voting remains open until next Thursday, March 12, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

Asked what this means for the NFL’s franchise/transition tag deadline, which expires earlier that same day and which has opened under the rules of the existing CBA (i.e., each team can use one of each tag, not one or the other), the source said, “They’ll have to move it.”

The CBA will be ratified if more than 50 percent of all ballots cast favor the deal.

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12 responses to “CBA voting begins”

  2. I wonder what the sticking points are, beyond the 17th game. The deal as-negotiated was presented as very favorable to the players, but we should all know that the owners aren’t giving anything away for the heck of it.

    My hope is that the representatives have done a good job at presenting interested players (because let’s face it, some don’t care, it’s the way it always is with a large group of people) with a good overview of everything involved.

    Neither side wants a work stoppage, and there’s plenty of time to get this done. I’m kind of surprised they need to give them a week to vote.

  3. So it’s come to our attention some players are being denied voting rights because they aren’t current with their union dues. This is a travesty and extreme injustice. No man in this great country should be denied the right to vote because they are poor.

  4. cardinealsfan2o says:
    March 5, 2020 at 9:38 am
    So it’s come to our attention some players are being denied voting rights because they aren’t current with their union dues. This is a travesty and extreme injustice. No man in this great country should be denied the right to vote because they are poor.

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    The minimum NFL salary is $500k

  5. cardinealsfan2o says:
    March 5, 2020 at 9:38 am

    So it’s come to our attention some players are being denied voting rights because they aren’t current with their union dues. This is a travesty and extreme injustice. No man in this great country should be denied the right to vote because they are poor.

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    No one in a union should be bullied by said union, but it happens all the time. Shakedown.

  6. lalder95 says:
    March 5, 2020 at 10:00 am
    cardinealsfan2o says:
    March 5, 2020 at 9:38 am
    So it’s come to our attention some players are being denied voting rights because they aren’t current with their union dues. This is a travesty and extreme injustice. No man in this great country should be denied the right to vote because they are poor.

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    The minimum NFL salary is $500k
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    Not only that, but this is a matter of Union by-laws. Meaning the Members/Voters of the NFLPA created this rule for themselves to follow

  7. If passed,… and when the new TV deals kick in,… each team could be adding as much as $30 – $40 million or more to the salary cap.
    I’d prefer to see the 1st contract players in the league get paid,… especially those who are in the starting line up and getting paid peanuts in comparison to a second contract player.
    1st contract draft choices or street free agents should all have performance bonuses that would compensate them fairly if they play a lot of snaps vs being back ups.

  8. It’s come to our attention some folks who comment here at PFT are either overly thick, have no sense of humor, or are ignorant of civil rights history in America. Whatever the case, we would encourage everyone to lighten up and not take yourself so seriously, and remember, not everything written is intended to be taken literally, sometimes the reader is expected to look beyond.

  9. If was the players I would never agree to the split contract scenario. That could be abused big time and teams may not try to rehab to the player to get on the field.

  10. AFW AFW says:
    March 5, 2020 at 9:27 am

    I wonder what the sticking points are, beyond the 17th game. The deal as-negotiated was presented as very favorable to the players, but we should all know that the owners aren’t giving anything away for the heck of it.

    My hope is that the representatives have done a good job at presenting interested players (because let’s face it, some don’t care, it’s the way it always is with a large group of people) with a good overview of everything involved.

    Neither side wants a work stoppage, and there’s plenty of time to get this done. I’m kind of surprised they need to give them a week to vote.

    There is an article I read from Andrew Brandt a former Packer executive for a decade or better and now a player representative with a great view from both Labor & Management perspectives it is a good read.

  11. The players voted on the last CBA, and then immediately following the vote many players started complaining about how bad the deal was, and that complaining has continued on a regular basis since. Also since the last CBA was ratified the same players doing all of the complaining voted to keep the same leadership (D.Smith), and then they sent the same man (D.Smith) who got them that bad deal to negotiate this BAD DEAL. This is the definition of insanity people – Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. This CBA IS A HORRIBLE DEAL for the players, but they’ll vote it thru and then spend the next 10 years complaining about it

  12. cardinealsfan2o says:
    March 5, 2020 at 9:38 am
    So it’s come to our attention some players are being denied voting rights because they aren’t current with their union dues. This is a travesty and extreme injustice. No man in this great country should be denied the right to vote because they are poor.
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    Awful….Simply awful

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