WASHINGTON (AP) – The NFL and its players’ union say they have not held a full-group negotiating session since November.
Thursday marks seven weeks until the current collective bargaining agreement expires, and there are no formal bargaining meetings scheduled.
If their private talks are seemingly at a standstill, both sides are engaging in public rhetoric.
Bob Batterman, an outside lawyer for the league, says in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Thursday that “the negotiations are not proceeding very vigorously” and that the union’s “strategy is not to expedite this, but to slow it down, so that they can file an antitrust lawsuit.”
Richard Berthelsen, general counsel for the union, says: “Any suggestion that we want a lockout is coming from outer space.”
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