Okay, wanting full pay is one thing, that probably requires court (and that's assuming they weren't being paid what they were promised), but "subjected them to hostile work environment in which they were harassed, intimidated and forced to live in fear."?
One does not become an NFL cheerleader as a career choice, one does it in order to be exposed to glamour, get new opportunities, put on the resume, and as an intriguing bullet-point on match.com.
The NFL could fire the whole lot of them, advertise for cheerleaders promising next to no pay, a hostile work environment, intimidation and even fear, and it would still have ten acceptable applicants for each available position.
They could also dump the whole cheerleader thing. The modern version was a dumb idea brought on by some opportunistic expansion team that wanted to make a sleazy version of a college tradition and monetize it. They succeeded, to the detriment of the sport.
When cheerleaders were cheelreaders:
![](https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/cheerleaderswhitesweaters.jpg?w=1000&h=600&crop=1)
There is exactly one semi-cute girl in the picture. Must have been a northern team. ;)
(I was born and raised in the Great lakes region, traveled extensively, lived in the west and south— there is a distinct difference in the female populations of those areas.)