So, what are the odds they feel decertification is really necessary and worth the trade-offs?
Bottom line: a lockout with a decertification would mean no football being played by current players.
If you look at the negotiations that took place leading up to decertification, everything suggests otherwise.
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In decertification, employees (in this case, the players) want a union to no longer represent them.
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Another scenario is where there is a lockout by the owners and a decertification of the players association.
They did 20 years ago when decertification occurred which led to free agency, so the legal precedent is there.
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The NLRB reports that only 26 percent of decertification attempts are ultimately successful.
As the White House well knows and accepts, relations with Mexico are too deep, complex and important to jeopardise by a decertification.
For those who were around back then, you know that decertification for that period did not mean there was no football being played.
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The NBA Players Association, although reports say they have enough votes for decertification, was not nearly as vocal and has yet to decertify.
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The NFL Players Association was very vocal about gathering votes for decertification during the season and then immediately decertified at the first opportunity.
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Decertification is when the members of a union (like the players association) decide that the union can no longer collectively bargain on their behalf.
It could take months for a decertification to be processed while the NFLPA can disclaim as soon as a letter is given Judge Doty.
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With the concession from Mr Gingrich on fast track, and the push on decertification, he has the chance at home to show leadership abroad.
They have labeled the decertification an end-run around the collective-bargaining process and filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board attempting to block it.
Unlike decertification, a de-authorization election can take place at any time.
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Only 30% of players have to vote in favor in order for the players association to file a decertification petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Along with the decertification, the United States issued a list of demands it wants Colombia to meet in the coming months if it is to avoid economic sanctions.
Also, the owners cannot challenge the decertification as a sham.
Lockout with a strike (and with or without decertification) .
Especially with the threat of union decertification on the horizon.
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The union breathed a heavy sigh of relief in May when the American Needle case did not award a sweeping antitrust exemption for the league, a decision that would have wiped out the decertification option.
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The NFL believes the NFLPA will pursue a legal strategy of Decertification to achieve its goals: effectively dissolving itself as a union, leaving the NFL no one to bargain with as the collective agent of the players.
So what does decertification really mean?
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And if NFL players win on both or either of these accounts, it will only serve to buttress the confidence of NBA players that they could pursue a similar decertification strategy in the hopes of achieving similarly courtroom success and CBA leverage.
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This happened in the NFL in 1989 and remained the situation until 1993 when the players association reorganized following a successful court battle with the NFL. After decertification, the players association would become a trade association that players could be a member of voluntarily (the current players association is not voluntary).
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