Blue Bombers president Wade Miller called the CFLPA’s criticism of Randy Ambrosie “unfair.”
Ambrosie has come under heavy criticism recently from CFL players, the CFL Players’ Association and league football operations personnel. Last week, the union and a host of players took to social media to voice their displeasure with Ambrosie regarding the state of talks between the two sides on an abbreviated 2020 season.
Ambrosie came under fire again Monday when he imposed a 20 per cent reduction to the football operations cap of all nine CFL teams. The cap would fall from $2.59 million to about $2 million for the 2021 season. Miller called the CFLPA’s criticism of Ambrosie “unfair.” Ambrosie issued a lengthy statement Thursday, divulging he “and every member of the CFL’s executive team took a 20 per cent pay cut in April.”
“It’s absolutely unfair to go at our commissioner and suggest we’re not working hard to find a recovery plan to get back to 2020 and the future. Just absolutely inaccurate and they’ve been engaged through this process.”“Last week collectively working with the Players’ Association, we sent a letter from the CFL to the federal government urging them to change wage subsidy so our CFL players would be fully eligible for that program,” he said.
A CFL source said Thursday the league has formally invited the union to begin discussions on those amendments. The source was granted anonymity because the league has not formally announced the invitation. “We told them we can bring it forward once we have a full-detailed proposal of what the 2020 season can look like and to consider the different scenarios that can make financial sense for us. That takes time. Unfortunately we don’t have the better answer but nor do other leagues.”
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