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Article: MLB, umps settle grading dispute
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- December 25, 2004
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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 ...