Strike Update

Developments Monday on the 179th day of the baseball strike:

Nine days before the scheduled start of spring training, mediator W.J. Usery went to the White House and told President Clinton he needed an additional day to complete his proposal for settling the strike. Usery said he will deliver it to Clinton at 3 p.m. EST Tuesday.

For the second straight day, the sides did not meet.

Players renewed their unfair labor practice charge against owners, claiming the signing freeze that management began Monday violated the agreement struck last Friday, when owners agreed to rescind their salary cap system.

Rep. John Boehner, an Ohio congressman who chairs the House Republican caucus, said he didn’t think Congress “ought to involve ourselves in this labor dispute.”

The owners’ last proposal was for a 75 percent tax on the amount of payrolls between $35 million and $42 million, and a 100 percent tax on the amount above that.

The players’ last proposal amounted to a 5 percent tax on the amount of payrolls between $20.3 million and $52.9 million, a 15 percent tax on the amount between $52.9 million and $65.1 million, and a 25 percent tax above that.

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“Clinton gives baseball ‘one more day.”