A common pay cuts for all riders in the coronakrisen will not be a part of the economic solution for the sport.
Canceled the race on the strip and a likely economic slowdown after coronakrisen has brought many professional cycling teams and the event organizers near the economic precipice.
With the belgian team Lotto Soudal is the riders agreed to lower the salary in order to save the team’s economy in crisis, and several other teams have probably thought the same thought.
However, a collective agreement on cutting the riders ‘ wages during the crisis never comes in the talk. It beats the professional cyclists ‘ unions (CPA) firm on Friday.
– We will never accept a collective agreement on lønreduktion, saith the CPA-chief Laura Mora, according to Reuters.
– We will analyze each and every case individually and look at how we can reduce the problems most possible with specific help and strategies.
She calls for the sport keeps together through coronakrisen, but a fast collective agreement on the lønreduktion across the teams is not on the drawing board.
– We are all in the same boat – in the middle of a storm. And to save all we need to respect the general principles and really work as a team, sound it from her.
to date, The International Cykelunion (UCI) suspended all ran forward to 1. June. All forårsklassikerne as well as the Giro d’italia is among the races that have been postponed for an indefinite time. Some of them are de facto cancelled.
the Tour de France is even set to be phased in as planned from the end of June and three weeks forward.
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