Fehr retiring as head of MLBPA
I'd be happy about this and celebrate, but it just means another asshat is taking over.
NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Fehr is retiring as head of the baseball players' association after more than a quarter-century in charge of the powerful labor union.
Fehr, who turns 61 next month, said Monday he will retire no later than the end of March.
Subject to approval by the union's executive board, he will be succeeded by union general counsel Michael Weiner, his longtime heir apparent. Weiner will head negotiations heading into the expiration of the current labor contract in December 2011.
"I have no hesitancy in recommending to the players that he be given the opportunity to do this job," Fehr said.
A clerk to a federal judge who became the top lawyer to pioneering union head Marvin Miller in August 1977, Fehr took over as acting executive director on Dec. 8, 1983. That was 2 1/2 weeks after players fired Kenneth Moffett, the former mediator who had succeeded Miller following a 50-day strike in 1981.
Fehr, who turns 61 next month, said Monday he will retire no later than the end of March.
Subject to approval by the union's executive board, he will be succeeded by union general counsel Michael Weiner, his longtime heir apparent. Weiner will head negotiations heading into the expiration of the current labor contract in December 2011.
"I have no hesitancy in recommending to the players that he be given the opportunity to do this job," Fehr said.
A clerk to a federal judge who became the top lawyer to pioneering union head Marvin Miller in August 1977, Fehr took over as acting executive director on Dec. 8, 1983. That was 2 1/2 weeks after players fired Kenneth Moffett, the former mediator who had succeeded Miller following a 50-day strike in 1981.