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Chapter 24 Labor Negotiation
Chapter 24 Labor Negotiation
Throughout July, Bruce and Cole were busy, and Peter Jackson also quietly merged his company in New Zealand into Miracle Film and Television.
After a round of negotiations that were not negotiations, Peter Jackson, as one of the partners of Miracle Films, obtained a 10% stake in Miracle Films and became the No.2 major shareholder after Rowling!
After the two parties reached an agreement, Bruce promised to provide Peter Jackson with the first sum of money in 1999, which is an investment of [-] million US dollars, and then continue to provide him with funds!
Since then, a film and television company with Cole and Peter Jackson as the main management and high-level people has built the prototype of his future giant company!
On August 8th, Bruce sat helplessly on the plane to New York. For the second labor negotiation tomorrow, he was extremely unwilling to be ridiculed and abused by those tough big men, even though he knew the final result , and cannot escape this meeting of the superstar executives of all the owners and the players union!
New York at night is known as another city that never sleeps, brightly lit buildings of all kinds, luxury cars of various colors, and young men and women in casual clothes rushing excitedly to their favorite nightclubs, In New York at night, it is difficult to see white-collar workers in such a hurry as in the daytime, and some of them enjoy themselves!
Standing by the huge floor-to-ceiling windows of the hotel with blurred eyes, Bruce watched this world-class economic powerhouse with a long history. Sagittarius, bowed his head and meditated!
"What's the next step for the Warriors?" Bruce refilled himself with wine at will, staring at the wine bottle on the bar in a daze, dazed!
In his heart, as the Warriors follow his own conception, it becomes a reality step by step, and the rest is the selection of some role players for the team!
In his plan, Dirk Nowitzki, Chauncey Billups and Vince Carter formed the immature "big three rookies".
And Paul Pierce, who can match or even exceed the achievements of several people in the draft, is snatched back by his own selfish desires because he does not want to see the "truth" of Boston's future.
"That's not bad! I really want to see who is stronger and weaker between the future Big Three and the lineup I have built in the next few years!" Bruce continued to be drunk, imagining the future Big Three and his team " Superstar development" team contest!
On the second day, with a bitter face, Bruce, under the reception of the NBA service staff, tried his best to avoid the eyes of many media, and flashed into the gate of the NBA headquarters very quickly!
Entering the gate, Bruce looked behind him with lingering fear. After finding himself, the media reporters who shouted loudly smiled at the crowd, waved their hands, and hurriedly turned and walked towards the elevator!
"Huh... It's really like what Tom said!" Bruce felt the strong aura of the media, and recalled the complaining tone of the team representative Tom Chris, and finally realized his mood!
The elevator reached the floor of the NBA headquarters with a "ding", Bruce shook his head and smiled, and then walked out!
Watching a staff member in a suit pass by, Bruce finally understood why this negotiation with huge differences was reported by the media in the previous life as the biggest disaster in the history of the NBA, even in the 70s and 90s. Or the several lockouts in the [-]s, none of which had as much impact as this one.
This kind of worry, even ordinary people will find out how meaningful this negotiation is when they see a staff member with a dignified face!
Just as Bruce walked a certain distance, loud footsteps and sturdy voices suddenly sounded behind him.
Turning his head curiously, when he saw clearly the appearance of the group of people behind him, an inexplicable tremor instantly spread throughout his body.
The tall stature exudes an inexplicable stalwart. Even when talking, everyone reveals their own stalwart. With the black or dark suits on their upper bodies, if you don't know who they are, you must Will yell gangsta!
"Jordan, Ewing, Pippen, Dennis Scott, oh! God, this is unbelievable!" Bruce subconsciously said the names of several people, excited, excited, jumping, all kinds of expressions representing his mood Complicated emotions lingered in his heart. He liked Jordan very much in his previous life. If the occasion wasn't a bit wrong now, he would definitely run over quickly to ask these Hall of Famers for their autographs!
"Hey! Dude, you are the little guy from the Warriors!" Ewing grinned, and led a few people towards Bruce with a big grin. He was the chairman of the players union at the time, and he was always a bit carefree!
"Little guy, there is no chance for us to retreat!" Jordan deliberately "threatened" Bruce viciously, as if using such a tone would scare him!
Bruce looked at a few people amusedly, and said slowly: "Okay! Mike, to be honest, you are my idol, but..."
Originally, Jordan, who was feeling good about Bruce's words, looked at him curiously after he said but, and really wanted to know something about Bruce's attitude!
"But, I won't give in at all!" After speaking, Bruce suppressed his excitement, turned around and walked towards the meeting room!
Sitting on the seat marked with his name, Bruce grinned silly and silently, and almost shouted out the words in his heart: "I talked to Jordan! MD, I actually talked to Jordan!!! "
Regardless of what Bruce and Jordan were thinking, when Bruce was sitting in his seat and smiling silly, the bosses represented by Stern all walked in.
Hearing the sound of chaotic footsteps, Bruce rubbed his face in a hurry, looked at the bosses with ugly faces seriously, nodded to them one by one, and silently looked at Sterling who put a large stack of documents on the table. kindness.
As if feeling that someone was looking at him, Stern followed the feeling, and when he saw Bruce looking at him with some worry, he gave him an ugly smile, and then sat down!
After the representatives of the players union sat in their seats one by one, Stern and many bosses looked at them silently!
"Our time is precious, so let's make a long story short!" Ewing, as the chairman, took the lead in expressing Labor's opinions, and opened a copy of the team's financial statements, waved to the service personnel behind him, and handed over the documents to Afterwards, the bosses of each team said forcefully, "Is this what you call losing money?"
Bruce looked at the group of financial data in his hand with some surprise. When he saw the end, he was shocked to find that if this information is true, it will give the management a resounding slap in the NBA league!
The data show that each team does not lose money as the previous owner said, and each team is making a profit, and the most are a few metropolitan teams, such as the Los Angeles Lakers, Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks, etc. Si et al.
Smaller teams such as the Toronto Raptors, Vancouver Grizzlies, and Milwaukee Bucks led the way with the least profit.
"MD, let's not tell the truth, as long as this is exposed, the bosses will definitely be blocked by the fans' anger and the media's frenzy!" Bruce looked at the boss and player representatives with different expressions beside him in shock. To his surprise, the bosses were all annoyed and ridiculed at the same time, especially the bosses of a few small teams were a little bit angry!
"Patrick, are you insulting our IQ?" Donald Sterling, who had a weird temper, was the first to explode. Looking at the player representatives, the stingy old man who had earned enough dollars on the Clippers was the first to go crazy!
"David!" Pippen looked at Stern angrily. He, who had always wanted a big contract, was extremely annoyed at the fact that the bosses deliberately suppressed the salary of superstars. Wanting to obtain a super contract will be a wish that is difficult to achieve in a lifetime!
"We will not back down!" Pippen declared the union's attitude bluntly.
And Jordan, who was sitting beside him, glanced coldly at the bosses of each team one by one, and said coldly: "Every superstar can get the salary they earned, or even more, but you vampires didn't look at it at all." What we have brought to the alliance. Therefore, we firmly disagree with your customized agreement!"
From the moment Jordan spoke, the entire conference room was filled with a heavy smell of gunpowder, and the bosses on the other side looked at Jordan angrily. No boss dared to deny the huge benefits Jordan brought to the league.
Stern, who was sitting at the top, realized that something was wrong, knocked on the table hastily, and said seriously: "Mike, please read this document carefully!" After speaking, he handed the document to the service staff behind him. Shares were distributed to both the labor and management present here, silently watching the representatives of the superstars who did not give in!
Since entering the 90s, the players' income has already exceeded the distribution of interests, which has increased from 48% to about 57% today, and the remaining 43% of the profits will be distributed by the teams.
And this scarce profit is the reason why the small ball will not make money or lose money. Now the boss is determined to reduce the huge contracts of the superstars. The solution is to set up a hard salary cap. Many players have raised their salaries, but the basic salary of veterans has no desire to increase.
And Labor, represented by Ewing, tried their best to get more salaries for the players. They even came up with a list of players in the league who still received a meager basic salary, and on it were 22 players with bright red circles. The number % is greatly circled!
In the ensuing negotiations, both parties insisted on their own opinions, and neither one was willing to back down. Seeing that the anger of both parties was getting stronger and stronger, Stern finally slapped the table fiercely, and looked coldly at the side of Labor who was fighting for reason. Simply ended the endless debate: "Since the two sides can't get a win-win agreement, then we don't need to talk about this endless thing anymore!"
Bruce didn't say a word during the whole negotiation, just because he was still a newcomer and knew the result of this negotiation, so he just watched this great change that would bring a huge disaster wholeheartedly from the perspective of an audience!
It's not that he hasn't thought about finding an agreement that both parties are satisfied with, but because of his identity and age, coupled with the attitude of the player representatives and the owners, who don't want to regress in the slightest, he feels tremendous pressure!
Bruce followed many bosses out of the conference room with a calm expression. When he was about to leave last, Stern's exhausted voice came over: "Bruce, you should be mentally prepared for the suspension. Warriors!"
"Uh...thank you!" Bruce nodded gratefully, and then followed the "great dictator" to the elevator!
Just as everyone appeared at the entrance of the building, many media reporters frantically opened their "long guns and short cannons" and flashed a white glow!
Bruce covered his eyes with some discomfort, but to his surprise, Stern seemed to be used to this kind of treatment, stroked his gray beard, greeted the media with a smile, and then greeted the staff around him. The staff winked, and then a reporter with an ESPN reporter nameplate on his chest followed the service staff and waited for Stern's arrival!
"David, can you talk about the negotiation process between the two parties?"
"Sorry, I can't reveal it yet!" Stern still smiled and watched the media waving their arms from time to time, while Bruce, who was two steps away behind him, was secretly admiring his style!
"So, can you tell us about Labor's attitude?"
"Of course!" Stern smiled unhurriedly, then his face changed, and he said seriously: "They have already received a high salary that is far below that of ordinary people. For the future of the alliance, we have to put this This kind of large-scale contract that obviously destroys the balance of the alliance should be banned, and a new, standardized salary increase contract can be used to achieve a win-win situation for both parties!" After saying this, Stern turned and nodded to Bruce behind him, and the two of them immediately He was escorted out by the bodyguards who had been standing aside for a long time!
On the other side, Ewing was angrily vomiting bitterness to the reporters, especially when the two of Stern and the media were about to approach, he shouted loudly: "They are a group of greedy vampires. There is no reason to cut the salaries of the players, we have contributed so much to the NBA, why can't we get more wages?"
Bruce muttered to himself, quickly got into the car assigned to him by the headquarters, and drove towards the airport without stopping!
(End of this chapter)
Throughout July, Bruce and Cole were busy, and Peter Jackson also quietly merged his company in New Zealand into Miracle Film and Television.
After a round of negotiations that were not negotiations, Peter Jackson, as one of the partners of Miracle Films, obtained a 10% stake in Miracle Films and became the No.2 major shareholder after Rowling!
After the two parties reached an agreement, Bruce promised to provide Peter Jackson with the first sum of money in 1999, which is an investment of [-] million US dollars, and then continue to provide him with funds!
Since then, a film and television company with Cole and Peter Jackson as the main management and high-level people has built the prototype of his future giant company!
On August 8th, Bruce sat helplessly on the plane to New York. For the second labor negotiation tomorrow, he was extremely unwilling to be ridiculed and abused by those tough big men, even though he knew the final result , and cannot escape this meeting of the superstar executives of all the owners and the players union!
New York at night is known as another city that never sleeps, brightly lit buildings of all kinds, luxury cars of various colors, and young men and women in casual clothes rushing excitedly to their favorite nightclubs, In New York at night, it is difficult to see white-collar workers in such a hurry as in the daytime, and some of them enjoy themselves!
Standing by the huge floor-to-ceiling windows of the hotel with blurred eyes, Bruce watched this world-class economic powerhouse with a long history. Sagittarius, bowed his head and meditated!
"What's the next step for the Warriors?" Bruce refilled himself with wine at will, staring at the wine bottle on the bar in a daze, dazed!
In his heart, as the Warriors follow his own conception, it becomes a reality step by step, and the rest is the selection of some role players for the team!
In his plan, Dirk Nowitzki, Chauncey Billups and Vince Carter formed the immature "big three rookies".
And Paul Pierce, who can match or even exceed the achievements of several people in the draft, is snatched back by his own selfish desires because he does not want to see the "truth" of Boston's future.
"That's not bad! I really want to see who is stronger and weaker between the future Big Three and the lineup I have built in the next few years!" Bruce continued to be drunk, imagining the future Big Three and his team " Superstar development" team contest!
On the second day, with a bitter face, Bruce, under the reception of the NBA service staff, tried his best to avoid the eyes of many media, and flashed into the gate of the NBA headquarters very quickly!
Entering the gate, Bruce looked behind him with lingering fear. After finding himself, the media reporters who shouted loudly smiled at the crowd, waved their hands, and hurriedly turned and walked towards the elevator!
"Huh... It's really like what Tom said!" Bruce felt the strong aura of the media, and recalled the complaining tone of the team representative Tom Chris, and finally realized his mood!
The elevator reached the floor of the NBA headquarters with a "ding", Bruce shook his head and smiled, and then walked out!
Watching a staff member in a suit pass by, Bruce finally understood why this negotiation with huge differences was reported by the media in the previous life as the biggest disaster in the history of the NBA, even in the 70s and 90s. Or the several lockouts in the [-]s, none of which had as much impact as this one.
This kind of worry, even ordinary people will find out how meaningful this negotiation is when they see a staff member with a dignified face!
Just as Bruce walked a certain distance, loud footsteps and sturdy voices suddenly sounded behind him.
Turning his head curiously, when he saw clearly the appearance of the group of people behind him, an inexplicable tremor instantly spread throughout his body.
The tall stature exudes an inexplicable stalwart. Even when talking, everyone reveals their own stalwart. With the black or dark suits on their upper bodies, if you don't know who they are, you must Will yell gangsta!
"Jordan, Ewing, Pippen, Dennis Scott, oh! God, this is unbelievable!" Bruce subconsciously said the names of several people, excited, excited, jumping, all kinds of expressions representing his mood Complicated emotions lingered in his heart. He liked Jordan very much in his previous life. If the occasion wasn't a bit wrong now, he would definitely run over quickly to ask these Hall of Famers for their autographs!
"Hey! Dude, you are the little guy from the Warriors!" Ewing grinned, and led a few people towards Bruce with a big grin. He was the chairman of the players union at the time, and he was always a bit carefree!
"Little guy, there is no chance for us to retreat!" Jordan deliberately "threatened" Bruce viciously, as if using such a tone would scare him!
Bruce looked at a few people amusedly, and said slowly: "Okay! Mike, to be honest, you are my idol, but..."
Originally, Jordan, who was feeling good about Bruce's words, looked at him curiously after he said but, and really wanted to know something about Bruce's attitude!
"But, I won't give in at all!" After speaking, Bruce suppressed his excitement, turned around and walked towards the meeting room!
Sitting on the seat marked with his name, Bruce grinned silly and silently, and almost shouted out the words in his heart: "I talked to Jordan! MD, I actually talked to Jordan!!! "
Regardless of what Bruce and Jordan were thinking, when Bruce was sitting in his seat and smiling silly, the bosses represented by Stern all walked in.
Hearing the sound of chaotic footsteps, Bruce rubbed his face in a hurry, looked at the bosses with ugly faces seriously, nodded to them one by one, and silently looked at Sterling who put a large stack of documents on the table. kindness.
As if feeling that someone was looking at him, Stern followed the feeling, and when he saw Bruce looking at him with some worry, he gave him an ugly smile, and then sat down!
After the representatives of the players union sat in their seats one by one, Stern and many bosses looked at them silently!
"Our time is precious, so let's make a long story short!" Ewing, as the chairman, took the lead in expressing Labor's opinions, and opened a copy of the team's financial statements, waved to the service personnel behind him, and handed over the documents to Afterwards, the bosses of each team said forcefully, "Is this what you call losing money?"
Bruce looked at the group of financial data in his hand with some surprise. When he saw the end, he was shocked to find that if this information is true, it will give the management a resounding slap in the NBA league!
The data show that each team does not lose money as the previous owner said, and each team is making a profit, and the most are a few metropolitan teams, such as the Los Angeles Lakers, Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks, etc. Si et al.
Smaller teams such as the Toronto Raptors, Vancouver Grizzlies, and Milwaukee Bucks led the way with the least profit.
"MD, let's not tell the truth, as long as this is exposed, the bosses will definitely be blocked by the fans' anger and the media's frenzy!" Bruce looked at the boss and player representatives with different expressions beside him in shock. To his surprise, the bosses were all annoyed and ridiculed at the same time, especially the bosses of a few small teams were a little bit angry!
"Patrick, are you insulting our IQ?" Donald Sterling, who had a weird temper, was the first to explode. Looking at the player representatives, the stingy old man who had earned enough dollars on the Clippers was the first to go crazy!
"David!" Pippen looked at Stern angrily. He, who had always wanted a big contract, was extremely annoyed at the fact that the bosses deliberately suppressed the salary of superstars. Wanting to obtain a super contract will be a wish that is difficult to achieve in a lifetime!
"We will not back down!" Pippen declared the union's attitude bluntly.
And Jordan, who was sitting beside him, glanced coldly at the bosses of each team one by one, and said coldly: "Every superstar can get the salary they earned, or even more, but you vampires didn't look at it at all." What we have brought to the alliance. Therefore, we firmly disagree with your customized agreement!"
From the moment Jordan spoke, the entire conference room was filled with a heavy smell of gunpowder, and the bosses on the other side looked at Jordan angrily. No boss dared to deny the huge benefits Jordan brought to the league.
Stern, who was sitting at the top, realized that something was wrong, knocked on the table hastily, and said seriously: "Mike, please read this document carefully!" After speaking, he handed the document to the service staff behind him. Shares were distributed to both the labor and management present here, silently watching the representatives of the superstars who did not give in!
Since entering the 90s, the players' income has already exceeded the distribution of interests, which has increased from 48% to about 57% today, and the remaining 43% of the profits will be distributed by the teams.
And this scarce profit is the reason why the small ball will not make money or lose money. Now the boss is determined to reduce the huge contracts of the superstars. The solution is to set up a hard salary cap. Many players have raised their salaries, but the basic salary of veterans has no desire to increase.
And Labor, represented by Ewing, tried their best to get more salaries for the players. They even came up with a list of players in the league who still received a meager basic salary, and on it were 22 players with bright red circles. The number % is greatly circled!
In the ensuing negotiations, both parties insisted on their own opinions, and neither one was willing to back down. Seeing that the anger of both parties was getting stronger and stronger, Stern finally slapped the table fiercely, and looked coldly at the side of Labor who was fighting for reason. Simply ended the endless debate: "Since the two sides can't get a win-win agreement, then we don't need to talk about this endless thing anymore!"
Bruce didn't say a word during the whole negotiation, just because he was still a newcomer and knew the result of this negotiation, so he just watched this great change that would bring a huge disaster wholeheartedly from the perspective of an audience!
It's not that he hasn't thought about finding an agreement that both parties are satisfied with, but because of his identity and age, coupled with the attitude of the player representatives and the owners, who don't want to regress in the slightest, he feels tremendous pressure!
Bruce followed many bosses out of the conference room with a calm expression. When he was about to leave last, Stern's exhausted voice came over: "Bruce, you should be mentally prepared for the suspension. Warriors!"
"Uh...thank you!" Bruce nodded gratefully, and then followed the "great dictator" to the elevator!
Just as everyone appeared at the entrance of the building, many media reporters frantically opened their "long guns and short cannons" and flashed a white glow!
Bruce covered his eyes with some discomfort, but to his surprise, Stern seemed to be used to this kind of treatment, stroked his gray beard, greeted the media with a smile, and then greeted the staff around him. The staff winked, and then a reporter with an ESPN reporter nameplate on his chest followed the service staff and waited for Stern's arrival!
"David, can you talk about the negotiation process between the two parties?"
"Sorry, I can't reveal it yet!" Stern still smiled and watched the media waving their arms from time to time, while Bruce, who was two steps away behind him, was secretly admiring his style!
"So, can you tell us about Labor's attitude?"
"Of course!" Stern smiled unhurriedly, then his face changed, and he said seriously: "They have already received a high salary that is far below that of ordinary people. For the future of the alliance, we have to put this This kind of large-scale contract that obviously destroys the balance of the alliance should be banned, and a new, standardized salary increase contract can be used to achieve a win-win situation for both parties!" After saying this, Stern turned and nodded to Bruce behind him, and the two of them immediately He was escorted out by the bodyguards who had been standing aside for a long time!
On the other side, Ewing was angrily vomiting bitterness to the reporters, especially when the two of Stern and the media were about to approach, he shouted loudly: "They are a group of greedy vampires. There is no reason to cut the salaries of the players, we have contributed so much to the NBA, why can't we get more wages?"
Bruce muttered to himself, quickly got into the car assigned to him by the headquarters, and drove towards the airport without stopping!
(End of this chapter)
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