It was unanimously approved by the actors' bargaining teams and is expected to be accepted.

Some participants in yesterday's session complained about delays caused by the unwieldy size of the bargaining teams.

Full bargaining teams from each side are scheduled to meet on Wednesday.

Quinn is a courtroom veteran whose relaxed style and years of experience changed the face of the union's bargaining team.

There is nothing so wrong with the law, they say, that could not be fixed by having municipalities send better-prepared bargaining teams to the table.

On Thursday internal bargaining teams met privately for five hours in New York.

The meeting in Manhattan will include full bargaining teams from each side.

The clubs' bargaining team gave some reason for hope when it adapted the structure of the union's luxury tax proposal to the owners' demands.

For their part, members of ownership's bargaining team think the players have embraced a racial component as a way to help stand firm.

The participant said, however, that he did not expect full bargaining teams to meet until next week at the earliest, if then.