USWNTPA accused U.S. Soccer of "bargaining through the media" with its recent CBA offerGETTY IMAGES
The USWNT Players Association yesterday shot down U.S. Soccer's latest CBA offer, tweeting that USSF's "PR stunts and bargaining through the media will not bring us any closer to a fair agreement," according to Paul Kennedy of SOCCER AMERICA. The federation responded via its communications department on Twitter: "An offer on paper of identical contracts to the USWNT and USMNT, and to discuss equalizing prize money, is real, authentic and in good faith. A publicity stunt is a 90-minute one-sided movie." That was a reference to "LFG," the HBO Max documentary about the women's equal-pay fight. USWNT F Alex Morgan said, "Any commitment to equal pay publicly is good. However, we need to look line by line at what they're actually providing, because if you have equal, but it's not even what we got before or to the value that we are, then we still consider that to be not good enough." Morgan, one of the named plaintiffs in the equal pay lawsuit, said that the players were "in active negotiation with the federation to reach a new agreement on a collective bargaining agreement." Kennedy notes the current agreement expires at the end of the year. Morgan said, "We don't want to start the new year without a new CBA in effect. That's the No. 1 priority of the PA and our legal team" (SOCCERAMERICA.com, 9/16).
