Description: The NHL and the NHL Players’ Association have reached a tentative agreement after the second-longest lockout in league history.

Source: The Toronto Star

Date: 01/06/2013

Link: http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/nhl/article/1311128–nhl-lockout-ends-with-tentative-deal-between-league-nhlpa

Related links:

• Industrial relations expert Mark Thompson offers some advice to negotiators
• Globe and Mail story
• Earlier update
• NHLPA
• NHL

Questions for discussion:

• Read Mark Thompson’s commentary and summarize his rules for negotiators in your own words.
• Do any of these rules surprise you? Explain.
• How would these rules apply to the NHL lockout?
• Do you think the lockout would have been ended sooner if the parties had followed these rules?
• Why do you think the parties didn’t follow these rules?