http://www.philly.com/dailynews/sports/20090130_Still_no_labor_proposal_to_players_from_NFL_team_owners.htmlBy PAUL DOMOWITCH
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TAMPA - Nearly 10 months after the NFL owners voted to opt out of the collective-bargaining agreement with the players, the league has yet to make any kind of proposal to the players union regarding changes in the current system.
"It's pretty much up to them to make a proposal of how it should be changed," NFL Players Association acting executive director Dick Berthelsen said yesterday. "And they haven't gotten there yet. We haven't seen much interest on their part in going to the
table.
"It's been indicated to us that the owners are formulating their proposal and that we'll hear from them when they have something."
There hasn't been a work stoppage in the NFL since 1987, and there has been labor peace for more than 15 years, ever since the owners and players settled their 5-year court battle and agreed to a salary-cap system with free agency in 1993.
But if the two sides don't work out their differences by March, the salary cap goes bye-bye in 2010, with a lockout likely to follow in 2011.
"If the past is prologue," said Berthelsen, "we will settle this, because we always have. But if not, we have a big question mark on the horizon."
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