‘I don’t think there really is trust:’ Lauther discusses CFL labour talks
If trust is a major factor in labour negotiations, the talks between the CFL and CFL Players’ Association may be in trouble.
“I don’t think there really is trust,” kicker Brett Lauther, one of the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ player reps, told The Green Zone on Tuesday.
“I was in the room in 2014 when they pay the veteran guys a ratification bonus and then two days later, when a deal gets done, (league officials say) ‘Oh, hey, we got a $50-million TSN deal that the players don’t get.’ And then talking publicly lately about how interest-based bargaining and everything is going fine until monetary comes up. Then even the misinformation that was put out on the weekend was just a (negotiating) tactic on their side.
“It’s tough to trust anymore what’s going on. I just hope that we can finally sit down and really hash it out and get something done so that in a couple of weeks, we can not be worried or thinking about this anymore.”