Australian players fail to rule out strike action
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June 5, 2012, Tuesday
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AUSTRALIA'S top cricketers have refused to rule out strike action if a June 30 deadline passes without a new pay agreement with the country's cricket board, the players' union said yesterday.
Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) chief Paul Marsh said his organization and Cricket Australia (CA) had hit a stalemate over negotiations for a new five-year deal and were looking at all their options. He insisted any strike would be "an absolute last resort".
Marsh said the ACA was looking for about A$30 million (US$29m) but it is not clear yet how much CA have put on the table. He said Australia's participation in the Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka in September could be under threat, along with Australia's one-day international tour of England in June-July.
"You can't rule anything out. I don't want this to sound like the players are all preparing to go on strike because that's not the case at all," Marsh said. "That type of action is an absolute last resort."
Marsh said if a new deal could not be agreed upon by the end of this month, the ACA would prefer to keep the current deal rolling along in the short term.
"If Cricket Australia don't want to do that, then we're forced with a decision to make," Marsh said. "We either accept the position that they put forward or we look at what our other options are. We should be making sure we know what all the different options are so if that time comes, we can sit down with the players and say 'what do you want to do?'"
Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) chief Paul Marsh said his organization and Cricket Australia (CA) had hit a stalemate over negotiations for a new five-year deal and were looking at all their options. He insisted any strike would be "an absolute last resort".
Marsh said the ACA was looking for about A$30 million (US$29m) but it is not clear yet how much CA have put on the table. He said Australia's participation in the Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka in September could be under threat, along with Australia's one-day international tour of England in June-July.
"You can't rule anything out. I don't want this to sound like the players are all preparing to go on strike because that's not the case at all," Marsh said. "That type of action is an absolute last resort."
Marsh said if a new deal could not be agreed upon by the end of this month, the ACA would prefer to keep the current deal rolling along in the short term.
"If Cricket Australia don't want to do that, then we're forced with a decision to make," Marsh said. "We either accept the position that they put forward or we look at what our other options are. We should be making sure we know what all the different options are so if that time comes, we can sit down with the players and say 'what do you want to do?'"
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