Baseball union promotes Meyer to deputy executive director
NEW YORK (AP) — Bruce Meyer was promoted to deputy government director of the Main League Baseball Gamers Affiliation on Wednesday after main the union’s negotiations throughout a 99-day lockout that resulted in March.
Meyer, 61, a longtime sports activities legislation lawyer and litigator, was employed in August 2018 as senior director of collective bargaining and authorized. Rick Shapiro, who headed negotiations in 2016, left the union in July 2019.
Meyer led the union by way of contentious and sometimes acrimonious negotiations to start out the 2020 season following the pandemic, then headed strained talks throughout baseball’s ninth work stoppage, the primary because the 1994-95 strike.
This yr’s lockout ended with a rise in luxurious tax thresholds (accompanied by a brand new highest tier of penalties), a lift within the minimal wage from $570,500 to $700,000, a brand new $50 million bonus pool for youthful gamers, growth of the designated hitter to the Nationwide League, 12 postseason groups as an alternative of 10, ads on uniforms beginning subsequent yr, a balanced schedule that reduces intradivision play beginning in 2023 and measures aimed to incentivize competitors and reduce rebuilding, comparable to an newbie draft lottery.
In different strikes Wednesday, Ian Penny was promoted to senior adviser to union head Tony Clark and Matt Nussbaum changed Penny as normal counsel, a transfer up from his earlier function as deputy normal counsel. Jeff Perconte was promoted to deputy normal counsel from assistant normal counsel.
Penny, 58, joined the baseball union employees as a senior labor lawyer in 2010 after working on the Nationwide Labor Relations Board from 1988-00 and the NHL Gamers Affiliation for a decade. He succeeded David Prouty as normal counsel in 2017.
Nussbaum, 48, was employed by the baseball union as assistant normal counsel in 2011 after three years on the NHL union and was promoted to deputy normal counsel in 2017.
Perconte, 48, a former assistant U.S. lawyer in Chicago, was employed by the union in 2017 as an assistant normal counsel.
Additionally, former pitcher Kevin Slowey was promoted to senior director of participant providers from director of participant providers, a task he had held since 2015. And former pitcher Chris Capuano to senior director of operations, enterprise and technique, up from the director of operations function he held since 2019.
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