The NFL and the NFL Players Association will meet Tuesday morning in New York to continue discussions about a revised personal conduct policy.
The union, which will be represented by executive director DeMaurice Smith, president Eric Winston and an unspecified number of active players, is seeking a formal response to its 3-week-old proposal that any new policy be collectively bargained.
"We want to work with the league office and the NFL owners to fix the personal conduct policy," Winston said. "A collective bargaining process is the only way to ensure that a new policy is fair, transparent and has the full support of the players."
The commissioner is authorized under the collective bargaining agreement to discipline players for off-field conduct considered detrimental to the league. The only thing subject to collective bargaining is the process by which players are disciplined, such as who makes decisions, when appeals have to be noticed, who hears appeals, and what kind of discovery a player gets.
The union's concern is that commissioner Roger Goodell recently punished players under the new domestic-violence and child-abuse policies -- which fall under the umbrella of the personal conduct policy -- without collectively bargaining the process for imposing discipline.
This will be the third meeting with both Goodell and Smith in attendance. Giants owner John Mara is expected to attend as well.