I of the US Women’s national football team players can This case pays the same week in court after negotiations between the team and the US Soccer take broken. “From a social point of view, the game in a better place for women everywhere, if not the same, then there is no supply, we can get,” Megan Rapinoe, of the best players of the 2019 Women’s World Cup, said on NBC’s Today Show Thursday. “It is not negotiation. Both values we own and prove that, or not.” Earlier this year, 28 members of the World Cup-winning USWNT, including star Alex Morgan and Rapinoe-filed a lawsuit against soccer in the United States, presumably because they did not receive compensation or treatment that had obtained the teams less successful than men. The representatives for the US Soccer team and agreed upon in New York this week to meet to discuss payment, but seem these negotiations are being the possibility of a lawsuit in federal court stall in an open exit. “We have entered into a mediation this week with representatives of the USSF full of hope,” Molly Levinson, a spokesman for the players, said in a statement on Wednesday. “Today we have close association determination this very upset meeting to basically perpetuate discriminatory working conditions and behavior.” Soccer in the United States, but denied that the bill, the Levinson statement calling “inflammatory”, according to CNN. “We have said many times that it is our goal to find a solution, and during the mediation, we had hoped that we would come across in a respectful manner the problems of the situation and reach an agreement,” the organization said in a statement. TIME could not immediately reach the US soccer for comment. US Soccer said last month that women were paid more than the men’s team to male players $34.1 million in salary and bonuses paid from 2010 to 2018 players, paid compared to $26.4 quoting million. Although these numbers are not services that female players, such as health and do not take account of the different wage structures between the two teams. For example, while the USWNT players receive a base salary, compensation depends on male players at the games and performance. support payment models in the lawsuit include USWNT that if both teams have won 20 games in a row, women were 38% less than their male counterparts are paid. USWNT players, fans and sponsors were vocal in their struggle for equal pay. Christen Press, who appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America Thursday with Rapinoe, said that the team is ready to continue the fight in court, if that’s what it takes. “It’s actually all over the world women are treated equally and with respect in the workplace,” he said. “If that means we’re going to go to court, we will, and we will do very confident.” Image Copyright Icon Sport Icon Filo Filo via Getty Images Sport
Related Post
Chargers coach Anthony Lynn of Systemic Racism in the NFL, and why one of only three Black Head Coaches
When Anthony Lynn, head coach of the Chargers in Los Angeles, in third grade was changed her world. It 'grew up in Celina, Texas son...
Colin Kaepernick was right, and pro athletes do not resign
When Devin McCourty life saw George Floyd expectation for the video of last week, could not entirely not his eyes. "I'm like, there's no way...
10 Classic ESPN Sports Events Where air to fill his empty programming
Better the good folks at ESPN: In this time of unprecedented global sport arrest because of COVID-19 blowout, we realize that you are trying to...
We do not need men to save us. WNBA star Candace Parker making your voice heard on the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage
I did not know that the world sees women as "less" until I started school. I'll say it again: the time when I entered my...
Because the activist Royce White NBA thinks that players should get out of the bubble and into the streets
Former NBA player and native white Royce Minneapolis has emerged as the influential activists after the death of George Floyd. End of May brought the...
John Thompson teams Black Proudly Georgetown College Basketball changed – and America
John Thompson Jr. won a title of NCAA basketball. He never appeared in another Final Four after his team Georgetown in four seasons from 1982...