May 19th 2022
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The United States Soccer Federation has agreed to new, landmark collective bargaining agreements with the unions representing the men’s and women’s national soccer teams. The CBAs, which will run through the end of 2028, end a contentious period of dispute over...
Brian Flores submitted an amended complaint in his suit accusing the National Football League and its teams of engaging in racial discrimination in hiring, adding two former NFL coaches as plaintiffs and alleging that the Houston Texans retaliated against Flores by...
The United States Women’s National Soccer Team's long-running equal pay suit against U.S. Soccer has finally concluded. As Jason noted last week, the team reached a $24 million settlement with the federation, ending a dispute that emerged in March 2016. Although...
On Tuesday, the United States Women’s National Soccer team—the reigning world champions—reached a $24 million settlement with the U.S. Soccer Federation, the official governing body of soccer in the United States and the employer of both the women and men’s...
On December 2nd, the collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association expired, allowing the league to impose a lockout as the two sides were unable to complete an agreement before the deadline. It is baseball’s first...
In July 2015, 26.7 million Americans tuned in to watch the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team win the FIFA Women’s World Cup Final – at the time the most watched soccer game in American history. The U.S. Soccer Federation, the body that governs the U.S. Men’s and...
A couple of weeks after publishing an open letter requesting that the men’s and women’s national team’s unions agree to a plan that would equalize the FIFA World Cup prize money distributed to the federation, U.S. Soccer announced that it had offered the respective...
With the wide distribution of the vaccine, new COVID-19 protocols negotiated by the professional leagues and their union counterparts are drawing a stark line between vaccinated and unvaccinated players. In the NBA, unvaccinated players are subject to a host of...
Olivia Moultrie and the National Women’s Soccer League have settled the young phenom’s antitrust suit challenging the league’s 18-and-older age restriction. The two sides had previously filed a joint stipulation, which conditioned the settlement on District Judge...
On July 5, we covered Carl Nassib’s announcement that he is gay, becoming the first player in the NFL to be openly out and just the second in the history of the four major North American sports. Just less than a month after the Nassib news, Nashville Predators...
A little less than a year after its introduction at last year’s U.S. Open, the Professional Tennis Players Association recently announced the appointment of an executive director and advisory board, as the fledgling union effort seeks to make headway in mobilizing...
Democratic senators introduced a bill on June 9 that would prohibit the appropriation of federal funds for the 2026 World Cup, which the U.S. is set to co-host, “until the date on which the United States Soccer Federation agrees to provide equitable pay” to the...