Posted on 05/01/2020 6:36:08 PM PDT by conservative98
A federal judge threw out the unequal pay claim by players on the U.S. women’s national soccer team in a surprising loss for the defending World Cup champions but allowed their allegation of discriminatory working conditions to go to trial.
Players led by Alex Morgan sued in March 2019, claiming they have not been paid equally under their collective bargaining agreement to what the men’s national team receives under its labor deal. They asked for more than $66 million in damages under the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
In a 32-page decision Friday, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner granted in part a motion for partial summary judgment by the U.S. Soccer Federation. He threw out the Equal Pay Act allegations but left intact the Civil Rights Act claims.
“The history of negotiations between the parties demonstrates that the WNT rejected an offer to be paid under the same pay-to-play structure as the MNT, and the WNT was willing to forgo higher bonuses for benefits, such as greater base compensation and the guarantee of a higher number of contracted players,” Klausner wrote.
“Accordingly, plaintiffs cannot now retroactively deem their CBA worse than the MNT CBA by reference to what they would have made had they been paid under the MNT’s pay-to-play terms structure when they themselves rejected such a structure,” he said.
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Feel good story of the week.
this is what you get with women’s sports
women’s anything, really
The original story wasn't in chat. FYI.
American women seek more than $66M in damages from US Soccer
It’s because, in general, women are physically weak and without an understanding of the importance of crushing their enemies.
Government shouldn’t be paying for this crap.
Women’s soccer brings in “X” number of dollars per year and men’s soccer brings in “X+Y” per year.So it makes sense that the men would make more.
Well with this judgement Megan Rapino will be asking Slow Angry Joe to switch her from the VP slot over to Attorney General.
Get the **** in the kitchen and make my dinner.
Equal pay for equal work doesn’t even apply here. It’s not like everybody is at a bench making widgets.
I’m guessing that a professional soccer player’s salary is determined by a negotiation - a negotiation between the player’s agent and the team’s agent.
So you will be paid based on what you are worth.
If this ruins mens soccer then I’m all for it. Woohoo
Commie kickball.
Maybe if they made them play nekkid more people would watch and they would make more money.
Women’s soccer sucks.
And their players are mannish, obnoxious and very unlikeable.
Obviously the USA Men’s Team generates more money. It doesn’t matter that they do not have the accomplishments of the Women.
It’s like the 1969 NY Mets winning the World Series and insisting the Yankees split their far superior revenue with them.
The simple answer is no men’s or women’s leagues. Just take the best athletes at every level, high school, college, and pros. The rest can play intramural sports.
Go get ‘em dp! By the way, I saw a good ‘mob’ nickname for Joe Biden this morning I thought you might like....’Joey Fingers’!
Lol
That’s terrible :-)
I did some bad things in my younger years but I never forced myself in any way on a woman. It’s something that disgusts me to no end.
if my sister came home and told me somebody forcibly penetrated her with his fingers I wouldn’t give a *** if he was the most powerful man in the United States. he’d be in a lot of ####### trouble
It’s a business girls, it’s a business. For what you bring in you are probably over paid now as it is so stop drawing attention to yourself.
All the women want is artificial life support money like the NBA gives to the WNBA. What’s wrong with that? /sarcasm
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