The contract has not yet been formalized but both the union and management expect it will be signed early next year.
The service employees' union, which has more than 400 full-time organizers, expects to add almost 200,000 members this year, to 1.3 million.
The union, however, apparently expects the clubs to make yet another tax proposal, this one more to its liking, in the next few days.
Despite the volatility of such partnerships, unions expect more in the future.
The unions expected that the government will pick up the food bill previously paid by the Americans.
Even so, management and the union, equally clueless, expect to win their cases in the court of public opinion.
When the talks broke off, the union expected the owners to prepare for an impasse.
It's hard to see what the union expected to gain by this action.
Neither union nor league lawyers expected more talks before Christmas.
The union expects to respond to the proposal by either tomorrow or Monday.