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1994 Baseball Strike

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  Total Pages: 4.46
  Total Words: 1114
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1994 Baseball Strike


Major League Baseball is viewed by most Americans as a source of entertainment. Millions of people turn out during a regular season to see there favorite teams and players play a good game of baseball. However, few see the other side of this form of entertainment. Baseball is as much of a business as any other business. The bottom line is about the profit.  This is evident by the strike of 1994.


Historically the 1994 baseball strike can be trace back to the negotiations that started between the union and the owners in early 1972. There were several “work stoppages” as a result of these negotiations, but none lasted near as long as the strike in 1994. The parties involved in our dialogue were the owners, commissioner, players union, and the players. Although many other parties were affected by the strike, we choice these because they appeared to be the main parties involved in the negotiations and why there was a lack of resolution in the negotiations. There appears to be several flaws lead by biases at the negotiations table that lead to the extreme actions of the players union and the owners. The first, as Bazerman would say, was the fixed pie perspective. Second, the failure of all involved to determine the Best Alternative to a negotiated Agreement (BATNA), the ability to assess possible settlement options was affected by the biases of the parties.  Third, ignoring the cognitions of the other parties when assessing the negotiation situation; all parties were self absorbed in their own issues and did not take side and did not take into consideration the cognition of the other parties involved, which leaded to non-rational escalation of the situation.  Fourth, all sides appeared to be inappropriately overconfidence interfering with the ability to allow accommodations to the differing interests of the other. Both the union and the owners failed to abide by what is referred to as the structure of the negotiation game. (Bazerman) The neg...

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