Newsom calls for end to lockout
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In his most forceful move yet to bring an end to a disruptive labor dispute, Mayor Gavin Newsom urged operators of some of The City&#39;s most prominent hotels to let employees return to work and pressed both sides to reach an agreement by Jan. 25.
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The NHL will lock out its players Thursday, starting a work stoppage that threatens to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season.
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The NHL Board of Governors will meet Jan. 14, when commissioner Gary Bettman could seek permission to call off the 2004-05 season. If a collective bargaining agreement hasn't been reached with the players association by then, the lockout will probably cause the cancellation of the 2004-05 season. Bettman has resisted announcing a drop-dead date to call off the season. Bettman ...
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The National Hockey League is locking out its players starting Thursday, threatening to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season and perhaps beyond in an effort by management to gain massive change in the sport's economic structure.
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - The lack of talks during the National Hockey League lockout could be nearing an end, as NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow has invited the league&#39;s negotiating committee to a meeting next week in Toronto.
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Representative of NHL owners and locked  out players met for nine hours Thursday, in a final desperate  bid to end a bitter labor dispute and salvage the ice hockey  season.
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The lockout that followed the expiration Sept. 15 of the collective bargaining agreement between the NHL and the NHL Players&#39; Association places the entire 82-game season in jeopardy.
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The union&#39;s proposal to end the lockout, made Thursday at the league&#39;s Canadian headquarters, calls for a tax that would penalize -- and perhaps deter -- high-end payrolls.
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The NHL said Wednesday it was imposing a lockout of the players association, effective Thursday -- the day after the expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement.
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The National Hockey League will lock out its players Thursday, starting a work stoppage that threatens to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season.
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NEW YORK - The National Hockey League is locking out its players starting Thursday, threatening to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season and perhaps beyond in an effort by management to gain massive change in the sport's economic structure.    After the long-expected decision was approved unanimously Wednesday by NHL owners, commissioner Gary Bettman repeatedly belittled the union's bargaining position, talked about the possibility the confrontation could extend into the 2005-06 season and said the conflict has jeopardized the NHL's participation in the 2006 Winter Olympics...
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NHL union head Bob Goodenow said Tuesday that locked-out players remain unified and that the season is in serious jeopardy. âIâm hopeful that there will be a season, but
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - After meeting with the Board of Governors Wednesday, National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announced that a lockout of the players will begin at midnight (et) when the collective bargaining agreement expires.
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National Hockey League owners will meet  with representatives from the players union on Thursday in what  is seen as a final bid to end a lockout and save the NHL  season.
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The NHL and the players' association will resume talks next week in an effort to end the 78-day lockout and save the season.
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NEW YORK - The National Hockey League will lock out its players Thursday, threatening to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season. The long-expected decision was approved unanimously Wednesday by NHL owners, who are demanding cost certainty, which players say would be tantamount to a salary cap...
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The leaders of the National Hockey League have slammed the door on players, instituting a lockout that began at 12:01 this morning, upon the expiration of the 10-year-old collective bargaining