NFLPA, NFL Owners Fail to Reach an Agreement: No 2011 NFL Season?

March 12, 2011   ·   Rachel Miller   ·   Jump to comments

The NFL Players Association has filed papers to decertify, effectively disbanding the union as well as giving the players a chance to sue under antitrust laws should there be a lockout.
"The NFLPA will move forward as a professional trade association with the mission of supporting the interests and rights of current and former professional football players," the NFLPA says in a statement.
The move follows a 16th day of federally mediated negotiations in which the union, presented with a proposal from the league's owners group late Friday afternoon as a 5:00 PM decertification deadline approached, rejected the offer as "significant differences continue to remain," union chief DeMaurice Smith said.
"They have chosen to select another strategy, and that is their decision," NFL commissioner Roger Goddell said.
Without decertification, the union would have had to wait six months to file a suit after the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement.
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