With the current collective bargaining agreement expiring this coming December, we’re all on alert for how Major League Baseball and the MLBPA will negotiate the next CBA to maintain the long-standing labor peace. Via the MLB Trade Rumors folks, I read the interview between the Associated Press and MLBPA head Tony Clark, in which they discussed various points of interest in the upcoming negotiations. Like any union leader, Clark’s job is to ensure that his constituents continue to have jobs and be paid as much as possible for them. The interview is broken up into several major points that you should read, but I’ll touch on a bit below.
The Looming CBA Negotiations
