Key people and background in MLB labor negotiations

NEW YORK (AP) — Key people and background in Major League Baseball’s labor negotiations:

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT

A five-year contract between MLB and the Major League Baseball Players Association expires at 11:59 p.m. EST on Dec. 1.

HISTORY

MLB had five strikes and three lockouts from 1972 to 1995, including a 7 1/2-month strike in 1994-95 that caused the World Series to be canceled for the first time since 1904, but reached agreements without a stoppage in 2002, ’06, ‘11 and ‘16.

REPRESENTING MANAGEMENT

ROB MANFRED

Now 63, completing seventh year as commissioner. Succeeded Bud Selig as baseball’s 10th commissioner in January 2015. A 1980 graduate of Cornell and a 1983 graduate of Harvard Law School, he clerked for U.S. District Judge Joseph L. Tauro in Massachusetts. Manfred became involved in baseball in 1987, when he was an associate at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and the firm was retained as counsel for MLB’s Player Relations Committee. He assisted on collective bargaining during the 1990 spring-training lockout and the 1994-95 strike, then became MLB’s executive vice president for labor relations and human resources in 1998. He was promoted to EVP of economics and league affairs in 2012 and to chief operating officer in September 2013. He led negotiations for labor deals in 2002 and 2006 with then-COO Bob DuPuy and headed talks in 2011.

DAN HALEM

Took over as MLB’s chief negotiator ahead of talks leading to the 2016 agreement after serving as No. 2 negotiator. The 55-year-old is a 1988 graduate of Cornell and 1991 graduate of Harvard Law School, was a partner in the labor and employment law department at Proskauer Rose and was an outside counsel to MLB in collective bargaining and salary arbitration. He was hired as MLB’s senior vice president and...

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