Originally Posted by
paulwoods13
Public transit ticket prices do not have anything to do with labour relations (altho if UP Express is "making money," someone must be cooking the books or not accounting for a hell of a lot of investment and infrastructure).
Regardless, you can take this to the bank: there will be no pay increases without a new CBA. That's how labour law works. The league is legally required to negotiate with the bargaining unit for the players, which is the CFLPA. It cannot change the terms of the CBA unilaterally. The pay scale is part of the CBA. Hence if there are to be increases to that pay scale (and I believe there will be, but not nearly on the level some wishful-thinking fans want), they will be negotiated with the CFLPA as part of the next CBA. There is no other way for it to happen, short of the union being decertified first.