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Union's CBA call just the beginning

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Friday, January 23, 2009

MONTREAL -- Friday's announcement that the National Hockey League's players would extend the collective bargaining agreement at least through the fall of 2011 might be seen by some as some kind of achievement, an end piece. It's not. It is a beginning. And unless both the NHL and its players use the intervening time to continue to work at deficiencies in the current agreement and ensure labor peace well beyond the life of the CBA, then the announcement will be pointless. It came as no surpris ...

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