Both the United States also values ​​… or you do not. ‘Megan Rapinoe criticized US Soccer After Pay margins talk

Both the United States also values ​​… or you do not. ‘Megan Rapinoe criticized US Soccer After Pay margins talk

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
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