Article: MLB, umps settle grading dispute

Major League Baseball's labor negotiators are on a roll. Following up their peaceful negotiation of a labor agreement with the players union in 2002, they quietly concluded a new five-year agreement with the World Umpires Association Thursday.

The agreement, which will run through the 2009 season, is subject to ratification by the umpires and the owners.

The negotiations proceeded so quietly and so effectively, the two sides even resolved their dispute over use of the computerized QuesTec system in grading umpires.

The union, whose members have always questioned the system on the grounds that it is flawed, filed a grievance last year challenging baseball's use of the system to evaluate ...

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