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End in sight for strike?
Owners present players a no-salary-cap proposal
WASHINGTON — Maybe, possibly, a small step toward progress was made in the baseball strike.
By Ben Walker The Associated Press
Owners, in their first meeting with players in 40 days, made a major shift Wednesday and presented a proposal that did not include a salary cap.
Union officials, while privately saying the exact plan is unacceptable, saw a chance that its structure could eventually lead to a settlement.
"We have removed the chief objection expressed by players," said John Harrington, management's chief negotiator Boston Red Sox chief executive officer. "Our proposal tracks much of the framework first offered by the union."
The meeting follows President Clinton's call last week for talks to resume. With spring training supposed to start in two weeks, Clinton has checked in almost daily to see if the sides are serious about his Monday deadline for making some progress.
"There was a recognition by both sides that there was significant pressure being applied," union head Donald Fehr said after the six-hour meeting.
Fehr said the union and players planned to spend yesterday reviewing the proposal. A full reply may not come until today.
Also Wednesday, the National Labor Relations Board said it would rule within two weeks on the unfair labor practice charges filed by both sides.
The owners' new proposal included a luxury tax and moved off their main demand to reduce player salaries to 50 percent of revenue.
"It looks similar to the proposal given earlier," free agent outfielder Brett Butler said of the
Still, owners hoped it would prompt players to make a productive counterproposal. In their last few meetings, the sides have ridiculed each other's plans.
While renewing negotiating efforts, players pressed their points on politicians.
new offer.
Dave Stewart, Andy Benes and about two dozen players lobbied on Capitol Hill. Cal Ripken Jr., Matt Williams and about 50 players mingled with about 100 members of Congress at an evening reception in Union Station.
The union and its consultants bought 600 baseballs for Dave Winfield, Cecil Fielder, Wally Joyner and the other players to sign for the politicians, their families and their staffs during the 2 1/2-hour party at Washington's train station.
"To me, I'm still in awe of baseball players. I meet heads of state, but I'm not as impressed as when I meet ballplayers," said Rep. Eliot Engel of New York.
At the main meeting of the day, the owners proposed two tax brackets: 75 percent on the amount of payrolls between $35 million and $42 million and 100 percent on amounts more than $42 million.
The Detroit Tigers, under the owners' method of calculation, had the top 1994 payroll at nearly $56.8 million. The new plan, if fully implemented last season, would have cost them an additional tax of more than $20 million.
In the union's last plan, offered Dec. 22, players proposed a tax of 10 percent on payrolls that exceeded 130 percent of the average ($52.9 million) and a 25 percent tax on the amount above 160 percent of the average ($61.1 million.) Under that plan, only three teams would have reached the 130 percent level, raising a total of just $586,000 in tax.
Clinton, speaking at the Pentagon, mentioned the strike. Clinton has said that if there was no progress by Monday, he may ask mediator Bill Usery to propose a solution.
Stay out, baseball fans tell Washington
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON— Nearly four out of five Americans think the government should stay out of the baseball strike, according to a Washington Post- ABC News Poll.
President Clinton has said he would ask federal mediator Bill Usery to recommend a settlement if talks don't produce progress by Monday.
Based on a sample of 1,026 adults, 382 of whom identified themselves as baseball fans, the poll showed that more than 70 percent of Americans believe baseball players make too much money and should accent some form of a salary cap.
Sixty-eight percent of baseball fans and 78 percent of all surveyed said government intervention would be bad.
"I'm doing whatever I can do personally," Clinton said Wednesday. "But the less I say about it, the better. We're all working."
"This administration has worked hard. But I think Mr. Usery, our mediator, should be given a chance to work through this last process to try to come up with an agreement between the parties. If they don't, I've urged him to put his own suggestions on the table. We'll just keep working through this until we get to a — hopefully get to a successful conclusion."
The poll, with a margin of error of 3 percent for all Americans and 6 percent for baseball fans, was published Wednesday. It found that 48 percent of those interviewed supported the owners' position in the strike while 27 percent support the players. In an August poll, the public was 36 percent behind the owners and 30 percent behind the players.
Fifty-five percent of fans surveyed said they believed the owners' claim that as many as three small-market teams might have to move if there was no system to limit team payrolls.
Sixty percent of those surveyed said they favored the use of replacement players if the strike was not settled by opening day.
Fifty-one percent of the fans said they intended to follow replacement baseball closely.
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