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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This had no place in the US court system. aere they under duress when they signed it? were they mentLly unable to understand what they were signing ? A written contract is a binding agreement. you have signed it. You can go on strike or quit. all the women who support this should go on strike and hold out for more money. That will cripple the US womens soccer sports juggernaut! Thousands of dollars will be lost in revenue!
Right or wrong, at least these women are willing to fight for their rights. That’s better than spending billions a year on prostitutes, as a certain other gender does.
I bet she is one horrid beotch to spend time around, for men or (normal) women.
For a while maybe.
But it's like when you were a kid with a Playboy magazine, you always wanted just a little more.
Nekkid players or not, a guy always wants to be in the goal.
Maybe, maybe not.
I work with a couple of “professional women”; they aren’t female professionals, but women who simply serve as tokens to fend off lawsuits. Nasty people, because they know they are tokens; the real work is done by truly professional men and women.
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