On March 8, Beijing time, Major League Baseball gave the players’ union a deadline — Tuesday night local time — to accept one of their new options in a new proposal. The option, which will be brought up in negotiations Monday in New York, including several rounds of phone calls, could resume the 162-game season if the NBPA ends.
MLB has not made a formal written proposal at this time, but has offered several assumptions that would allow the union to choose options in exchange for other trade-offs. If no deal is reached by Tuesday night local time or at least early Wednesday afternoon, MLB officials said another week of the regular season would be canceled and players would forfeit their salaries.
Neither the major league nor the union would publicly comment on their meeting, but the talks appeared to be as tense as the long 16.5-hour meeting between the two sides in Jupiter, Florida, a week ago. During nine days of negotiations, the two sides made progress but failed to reach an agreement before leaving Florida.
The most important move in Monday’s negotiations is that Major League Baseball will raise its luxury tax threshold from $220 million this year to $228 million by the end of the collective bargaining agreement. Increase to 238 million US dollars (about 1.503 billion yuan). The union’s last proposal is to seek to raise to 238 million in 2022, with an ultimate goal of $263 million (about 1.66 billion yuan).
After the talks last Sunday, the major league announced that the negotiations between the two sides had reached an impasse and could only be restarted. “Simply put, we’re at an impasse,” Major League Baseball spokesman Glenn Caplin told reporters on Sunday. “We’ll try to figure out how to respond, but any None of the content can be easily modified.”
The MLB held a conference call with its 30 owners on Monday and presented a new proposal that would offer options, including a luxury tax increase, which has been a major hurdle in negotiations.
The core of the current conflict between the two parties is the pre-arbitration capital pool and the minimum wage. The major league had previously offered a $30 million (about 189 million yuan) option in its pre-arbitration funding pool, and the union is seeking $80 million (about 550 million yuan), an annual increase of $5 million. The major leagues proposed raising the minimum wage from $570,500 to $700,000 in an annual increase of $10,000, with the union targeting a minimum of $725,000 in 2022, $745,000 in 2023, $765,000 in 2024 and $765,000 in 2025 and 2026, plus With the continuous adjustment of the consumer price index.
The deadline could be extended by a day if the two sides fail to reach an agreement on Tuesday night, but talks make significant progress.Return to Sohu, see more
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