David – Boys held a news conference, said they decided to some of the players had submitted to the court in the Northern District of California merged into the Minnesota litigation, which can speed up the litigation process. For the previous “secret negotiations between employers and employees are” rumors, Boise not only responded to the employers will blame him. He said: “Since the lawsuit submitted by the players, we are no negotiations between the two sides have failed to solve the problem or make efforts to restart negotiations, because the Union has made very clear that they are not interested in negotiating with us.”
As there is no next restart negotiations with the Alliance for the new season to make a last-ditch effort to keep the plan, Boyce said that in his view at this moment the two sides will not be any form of dialogue, he said: “The needs of both sides of the joint negotiation efforts, (but now we have players sided only). ”
Last week, the Union president David – Stern called 30 team owners held a conference call, at that meeting, the employer did not discuss how to respond to player actions. Their strategy is holding on, waiting for players the first compromise. A source said, in fact, employers do not want to court with the players, they are waiting for Hunter to take the initiative to call Stern.
In this regard, Boise, also said: “I do not object to the union to call, I would first pick up the phone call the other requirements of the people to solve problems through dialogue, but only if employers have to give up the previous hard-line stance, put low profile, otherwise, even if I take the initiative to call the league has no meaning. may take some time to decide they are not ready to negotiate it. ”
So far, the coalition parties to initiate proceedings in addition to the players had issued a statement outside the practice, did not have any substantive response. However, according to sources, the player party joinder, the coalition must have 21 days to respond. Boyce said: “on litigation, I think the good thing is that I know in three weeks I was able to get employers to respond.”