{"id":337764,"date":"2025-12-10T23:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337764\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T23:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:01:07","slug":"with-refs-union-cba-set-to-expire-nfl-outlines-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337764\/","title":{"rendered":"With refs&#8217; union CBA set to expire, NFL outlines priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NFL teams were informed in a memo Wednesday that the collective bargaining agreement between the league and\u00a0NFL Referees Association expires at the end of May,\u00a0making this current season the final one of the existing agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The memo, sent by NFL vice president of football operations Troy Vincent and general counsel Larry Ferazani, said the league has been &#8220;engaged in bargaining with the NFLRA to extend the current agreement since the summer of 2024, and to date, those discussions have been unsuccessful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vincent and Ferazani laid out the league&#8217;s priorities for a new CBA in the memo, noting, &#8220;The NFL has remained focused on implementing changes to the agreement in ways that will improve the performance of our game officials, increase accountability, and ensure that the highest-performing officials are officiating our highest profile games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Among the changes the league is bargaining for:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When reached by phone Wednesday afternoon, Scott Green, the executive director of the NFLRA, declined to comment on the league&#8217;s memo and the bargaining process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8220;We look forward to discussing that with them,&#8221; Green told ESPN. &#8220;It&#8217;s not really helpful to do it by way of the media at this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The last officiating lockout was in 2012 and lasted 110 days, ending after three weeks of controversial calls by replacement officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL teams were informed in a memo Wednesday that the collective bargaining agreement between the league and\u00a0NFL Referees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-337764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}