The NFL “won its grievance” against the NFLPA, “effectively banning the union from conducting and publishing future player report cards.” Getty Images
The NFL “won its grievance” against the NFL Players Association, “effectively banning the union from conducting and publishing future player report cards,” according to a memo to all NFL clubs. An arbitrator found that the cards “violated the collective bargaining agreement by ‘disparaging NFL clubs and individuals.” The memo noted that the arbitrator found through hearings with the NFLPA’s witness and counsel that the “report cards were ‘designed by the union to advance the interests under the guise of a scientific exercise.’” The union’s witness and counsel “admitted the union ‘cherry-picked’ topics and responses to include in the report cards” (ESPN.com, 2/13).