(VIDEO: ATLAS) Still no agreement in the collective agreement between AFE and LFP. In a question-answer forum Sen. Sherrod Brown was the first to reply. Discrepancies between the AFE and the League are, mainly, by the wage guarantee fund for players from clubs in bankruptcy law. Rubiales: AFE and all first and second Division players have taken the decision to call a strike in the first and second day. The League sees incomprehensible position of the AFE. The President of the Association of Spanish footballers (AFE), Luis Rubiales, announced the call for a strike for the first two days of League, the absence in accordance with the League of professional football (LFP) collective agreements.
Rubiales announced the decision in the presence of more than one hundred players, among them the captain of the Spanish team, Iker Casillas, and international as Carlos Puyol, Xabi Alonso, Fernando Llorente and Santi Cazorla. Players n I have come together and we’ve had enough already. We have taken the decision firm, unanimous and responsible for call strike for the two first days. The League will not begin until signing a new collective agreement, Rubiales said. The AFE Chairman indicated that strike does not mean that the Union will leave negotiating to try to reach an agreement on the Convention, even though the strike could prolong If disagreement persists. Not may be asked to the players more.
Footballers don’t want more money, they want that they are met, ensure for past, present and future debts and contracts that you enjoy football as a healthy, equal competition, where players are treated equally on a computer that is in another, added. Rubiales denounced the unilateral agreement adopted by the League on day 3 to create a fund to guarantee the wage debts of players from clubs in competition until 2015 is insufficient to cover the debts of this year and which are then generated. We want not only stopgap measures.
