The biggest gap is in player contract rights, where Commissioner Gary Bettman has not budged from his original proposals, which would limit contract lengths and increase the playing time requirements for achieving free agency and salary arbitration.
It would also limit contract lengths, extend entry-level contracts from three to five years, make players ineligible to become restricted free agents until 10 years of service rather than the current seven, and eliminate salary arbitration.
Senator Barack Obama has voted for the latest Senate version of the Wall Street bailout bill despite language that could be used by Bush officials to limit contracting opportunities for minority and woman-owned businesses.
In Indianapolis, teachers recently protested a bill that would limit contract negotiations for their unions, while in Ohio, demonstrations occurred outside the Statehouse against legislation that would severely hinder the bargaining ability of unions and state employees.
Uncovering past trauma, retrieving lost energy, removing limiting contracts, incorporating the energy of your power animal... that's a lot to accomplish in an hour and a half.
White House officials were fuming about the timing and the tone of the Pentagon's directive, even while conceding that they had approved the Pentagon policy of limiting contracts to 63 countries that have given the United States political or military aid in Iraq.
The Union of European Football Associations has proposed a new range of measures to prevent Europe's richest soccer clubs from maintaining an unfair advantage over poorer clubs, including salary caps, a luxury tax on transfer fees and limiting contracts per year, potentially knocking some of the biggest clubs from their top league positions.
The measure limits contract negotiations to matters of wages only, and even on that matter, raises would be limited to changes in the Consumer Price Index unless the public supports a higher raise in a referendum.
