WICB PLAN TO CONTINUE GIVING CONTRACTS TO PLAYERS 3 WEEKS BEFORE TOURS

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So the walkout was ineffective!

If nothing else has come out of the whole sorry mess it's that the WICB are at the very least forced to act as any reasonable entity would.

It's mind boggling that for years they send players on tour without them seeing their tour contract.

Lloyd is a hypocritical person as he did the same over money.

The fact is Contracts is the biggest understanding of employment and if this is being addressed then something significant has come out of the justified, in my view, walkout.

However let us remind ourselves of the other sensible recommendations which I hope are implemented as they form a sound, but improvable, emploment framework!

Recommendations

1. The WICB must now build pillars of trust and respect with the players who are the Board’s employees. In this process WIPA and the senior players have a very real role to play.

2. The WICB should simplify the Team’s Management Structure as follows:- - The Manager is in charge of the team for home and away tours. - The Head Coach is in charge of cricket matters with easy access to the Manager at all times. - The Captain is in charge of the team on the field of play with access to the Manager and Head Coach. - The Captain is also the mentor to the team off the field of play.

3. The players’ contracts must be given to players at least three (3) weeks before a Tour. The players must return them at latest, one week before the tour. Failure to return a signed contract will disqualify the player from selection on the team.

4. The WICB should recruit the services of a sports psychologist on a retainer basis to help our players with mental preparation especially young players. It is noted that two (2) of our greatest prospects are currently out of the team because of “unexplained personal reasons”.

5. The WICB print an Employees Handbook which will be given to WIPA and to every player who represents the West Indies. The Handbook should include: - A précis of the MOU and CBA - Players manual with selection criteria - The Retainer Contract - Three (3) cricket formats – Test, ODI and T20 - A-team and Youth Team Tours - CPL and WICB Professional Franchise - Any other relevant information.

6. The WICB should convene bonding sessions twice yearly between players, management and the Board to foster harmonious relations. Individual members of the Executive Committee which normally meets more often than the Board should be selected to oversee and solve any personal or cricketing problems revealed by players.

7. A new CBA should contain a provision such as is contained in legislation relating to Essential Services to the effect that before the withdrawal of labour or any other industrial action be taken that a minimum period of notice be given by WIPA to WICB (say 14 days) of any industrial action contemplated by WIPA or the players as a result of an identified dispute. We would recommend that a similar provision be put into the individual player’s contracts. This would obviate any circumstance as occurred in India. Breach of such a condition would be a breach of contract. 8. There should be a reversion to the former tradition of a management committee comprising the following persons who generally accompany the team:

- The Manager as Chairman
- The Head Coach
- The Chairman of Selectors
- The Captain
- A WIPA representative and/or a senior player

Would this have happened had the players not walked out?

ahhhh.....No!

WAIT, so giving the players their contracts PRIOR to a tour was a recommendation that WAS NOT implemented by the WICB.

You can't make this shyte up.

Had the players been given their contracts BEFORE the tour they could have withdrawn their services and all would have been well with them and the WICB.

AMAZING, TRULY AMAZING

No!

It was a recommendation implemented as at the Saffer tour.

Of course teh recommendation came after the walk out.

As you would know, the non issuing of contracts is a long standing issue.

Honestly I still find myself shaking my head at the fact that the WICB were ROUTINELY sending players on tour without them seeing their tour contracts.

I recall in around 1981, there was a big brouhaha prior to an Australian tour.

Windies really did help teh Australian coffers in those days.