Marvin Miller
Marvin Miller
Marvin Julian Millerwas the Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Associationfrom 1966 to 1982. Under Miller's direction, the players' union was transformed into one of the strongest unions in the United States. In 1992, Red Barber said, "Marvin Miller, along with Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson, is one of the two or three most important men in baseball history."...
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What the owners are doing calls for a strike, ... I think it's fair to say owners are on track to commit same errors as in 1994. But I'm the last person to ask if there will be a strike because I don't have any management connections. I can't say how far management is going to go being stupid again.
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The whole thing smells bad. You have a so-called senior adviser who takes the leading role in making one of the worst settlements imaginable and then becomes director of the union.
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It could take two or three years longer on the appellate level for the first tier -- that's the circuit court of appeals -- then it could take a couple of years ... in the Supreme Court.
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We can build up to about a hundred units right now with the water that's available on the land right now. But to go past that we're going to have to build a new water pipe, a water main to the small town of Dolton. That's where the water is and that's about ten miles south of where we're going to be,
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Nobody knows really what that act means until it's been tested with a couple of cases. I wouldn't go down that path with much hope.
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My feeling is never count on an arbitrator or courts, ... You may think you know how it will come out but don't count on it. A strike you can count on because you only call a strike when you know you can win.
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It's the difference between a very stupid bank thief and a very skillful one. It doesn't mean the skillful one will not get caught.
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The NHL players have requirements in their constitution that say they simply cannot make it up as they go along,
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It's not good enough (for the NHLPA) to say they've done it like this in the past, ... That's just an admission of guilt. They've clearly violated their constitution and it makes it possible that they could be looking at a civil and criminal offense.
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It tells me really what I've known all along. And that is that the NHLPA has never been a legitimate union at any time. It has always been an offshoot of management.
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We hope to sit down with them and address their concerns.
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We want to trap them to determine how many there are.
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They've clearly violated their constitution and it makes it possible that they could be looking at a civil and criminal offence.
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You're not just talking about 2 teams and 50 jobs. You're talking about establishing a precedent that the owners can eliminate jobs. That would be very troubling for players,