The NBA Players Association filed an unfair workload against the League Tuesday with the National Labor Relations Board, a move that he hoped could block a lockout, he feels owners want.
The Union says that the NBA has not negotiated in good faith, has made the financial requirements without offering concessions to the players and has circumvented the union to deal directly with the players.
The charge filed with the NLRB region 2 is seeking "an injunction against illegal trading practices of the NBA and its threat of unlawful lockout."
The NBA and the players are trying to reach an agreement for a new collective agreement before the expiry on 30 June of the current. They plan to meet early next month in the NBA Finals, but remain very distant on the key financial issues and remains a possibility for a work stoppage.
Although both sides insist that they realize the importance of negotiating an agreement themselves without it reached the courts, because the situation of work of the NFL, the union hopes that the charge may give legal choirs if negotiation fails.
The charges against the League include:
-make requests "takeaway" hard, inflexible and coarsely regressive NBA knows not acceptable to the union and not supported by objective or reasonable factors or balanced compromise appropriate;
-engage in the classic "take it or leave it" and bargaining intended to delay action on an ABC renewal until the NBA locks employees represented to force them to accept severe and regressive NBA; requirements
-failing and refusing to provide the relevant financial information correctly requested and required by the union to understand, test, and analyze the justification claimed the NBA, based on the financial weakness, for its overly regressive contract applications;
-threatening employees represented by the union that the NBA will force them to pay the costs of a lockout through still more draconian points of their ABC;
-make requests and threats which are inherently destructive to the process of collective bargaining and the rights of the employee, and which reflect the hostility of the NBA in this process and these rights are intended to report to the employees represented by the Union that back-and-forth negotiation is futile.
The NBA recently sent a second proposal for a new CBA players, who are opposed to the economic changes, the League said he needs.
"There is no merit to the charge filed today by the association of players with the National Labor Relations Board, as we have respected - and will continue to comply with - with all of our obligations under the federal laws of labour""," NBA spokesman, said Mike Bass. "It will not make us efforts to negotiate a new collective agreement with the association of players in good faith."
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