U.S. women's team does not have right to strike: judge
Source: Reuters
The United States women's soccer team does not have the right to strike for better conditions and wages in 2016, a U.S. district court judge ruled in Chicago on Friday.
Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman ruled that the players were bound by a no-strike provision in their contract with U.S. Soccer. The decision comes only two months before the U.S. women are due to defend their Olympic title in Rio de Janeiro.
"Today, Judge Coleman ruled in favor of U.S. Soccer and affirmed that the existing CBA (collective bargaining agreement) with the U.S. Women's National Team Players Association is valid through the end of 2016, including the no-strike, no lockout provision," U.S. Soccer said in a statement.
"We are pleased with the Court's decision and remain committed to negotiating a new CBA to take effect at the beginning of next year."
The ruling was a victory for U.S. Soccer, which had argued that though the team's collective bargaining agreement had expired in 2012, it lived on in a memorandum of understanding signed in 2013.
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World | Fri Jun 3, 2016 8:05pm EDT
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)When they had a world cup and the men did not, the women brought in more money. Over a 4 year span its not even close, and the men have always had higher raitings and more revenue.
braddy
(3,585 posts)rpannier
(24,338 posts)Then where would US Soccer be?
Women would likely be 7th or 8th or worse
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)And since when is the U.S. Soccer team equal in importance to the safety of people as air traffic controllers?
Omaha Steve
(99,711 posts)But that has been changing.
They can't strike. Soccer can't lock them out or say NO WORK. It protects against a wildcat strike for the company.
This case the workers will get paid (once the legal fight is over) because the lockout wasn't legal: http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Corporate-Greed/NLRB-Reaffirms-Kellogg-Lockout-Was-Illegal-Orders-Workers-to-Be-Made-Whole
http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Organizing-Bargaining/Employers-Overreach-with-Growing-Lockout-Tactics
Employers Overreach with Growing Lockout Tactics
10/11/2012 Mike Hall
The growing number of lockoutswhere employers close the doors or gates in order to wring concessions out of workersrepresents an overreach on the part of employers, writes Minnesota AFL-CIO President Shar Knutson in an op-ed piece today in the Minneapolis StarTribune.
For examples of these lockouts, Knutson points to the more than 13-month lockout of American Crystal Sugar workers, the NFL lockouts of referees and players, Cooper Tires recent lockout and this months lockout of the Minnesota Orchestra (American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada [AFM] Local 30-73), where management is seeking 30% to 50% pay cuts.
Knutson writes: Lockouts have not been very common in the past, because usually businesses would prefer to keep operating and getting the value of workers' labor. But in the current economic climate, even profitable enterprises are seeking to wrangle a few extra dollars out of workers.
FULL story at link.
unblock
(52,317 posts)the sports equivalent of the work slowdown....
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)So they find themselves screwed and realize they signed away their rights to do anything about it.
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1036
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