In its claim, the union alleges that the league directed teams to restrict salaries during the uncapped 2010 season, essentially imposing a cap of $123 million.
The high purchase price could also strengthen the players' union's argument against the owners' efforts to restrict salaries during the next round of collective bargaining in 2011.The real winners are the creditors, particularly Monarch Alternative Capital, a distressed-debt hedge fund which scooped up HSG's paper on the cheap after it defaulted.
Donor policies generally restricted direct salary support to government staff but organisations were able to give technical and quality support.
From 2005, G-14 wants its members to restrict their salary bills to 70% of the club's turnover.
In contrast, the poor entrepreneur bootstraps a start-up, takes enormous risks, and if she raises venture money, the first thing a VC does is to restrict her salary.
League officials have said they will attempt to keep players like Donovan, Mathis and Beasley, even if it requires altering the M.L.S. financial structure, which caps team salaries at about $1.8 million and restricts individual salaries to $270,000.
In the generally thrifty M.L.S., where teams are restricted by a salary budget but can spend above the maximum salary of $400,000 on each of three designated players, Beckham's defending champion Los Angeles Galaxy and the Red Bulls stand out as free-spending, big-market clubs.
Unlike the vast majority of employees, C.E.O.s often receive much of their pay in the form of stock options, restricted stock, deferred salary, and so on.
The new leader of the Green Party said it offered a "different kind of economy" and backed the policy of restricting top salaries to ten times that of an organisation's lowest wage.
A Federal jury in Kansas City, Kan., awarded 1,900 assistant coaches $22.3 million in damages last Monday for unlawfully restricting their salaries.
