Present Development
In 1995, negotiations began on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The new CBA period was from 1 November 1995 to 31 October 1998 and increased minimum salaries for season 1996 to $15,000 and match payments to $1,000 per senior game. These payments further increased to $20,000 and $1,500 in 1997, and $20,680 and $1,550 in 1998 respectively. The players gained an increase in the share of revenue from marketing activities and an increase in injury and illness benefits.
By this time, 99 per cent of all AFL players were members of the association.
In 1998, the association underwent significant change. Long-serving president Justin Madden retired from football, and Fremantle’s Peter Mann took over the presidency. Peter Allen resigned as CEO after a twenty year involvement. Former North Melbourne and Hawthorn player, Andrew Demetriou, was appointed as the new CEO.
Read more about this topic: AFL Players Association
Famous quotes containing the words present and/or development:
“The present necessarily betrays the past.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be.... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.”
—Sarah Bernhardt (1845–1923)