Commissioner David Stern said the league hoped to open the season with that tripleheader after announcing a tentative agreement on a new labor deal with the players Nov. 26.

总裁大卫斯特恩在十一月26号宣布与球员的一份短暂的劳资协议后，说联盟希望以三场比赛开始新赛季。

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On the league side of the table sits Bernard Plum of Proskauer Rose, a high-powered law firm with long experience in labor battles.

联盟这边的代表是Bernard，他来自一家在劳工纠纷问题上很有经验的一家法律事务公司。

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"Another way of looking at it is that a free agent in a sports league is the same thing as anybody else in the United States labor market.

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Karpinski says to do that, the League of Conservation Voters has mounted a nation-wide campaign to build support for new climate legislation among labor,industry and veterans groups, who have been suspicious of the measure's potential impact on the American business community.

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The last time the league had labor strife, the entire 2004-05 season was eliminated.

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When the NBA and its players agreed to their new labor deal, the league believed its rules would help restore competitive balance by keeping superstars apart.

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For starters, the NFLPA filed a legal complaint with the Special Master that has been assigned to deal with labor disputes with the league over how the contracts were designed with money still flowing to the owners in the event of a work stoppage.

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