U.S. Soccer hires lobbyists to argue women's national team isn't underpaid
Source: Politico
The U.S. Soccer Federation has hired two Washington lobbying firms to push back against claims that it pays the women’s national team less than half of what it pays the men’s team.
The women’s team was celebrated as feminist icons for winning the World Cup last month, even as it battled U.S. Soccer over what the players say is unfair pay. The players filed a lawsuit in March claiming that, under their previous contract, a player on the women’s team could have earned in a year as little as 38 percent of what a men’s team player made.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) both cited that statistic when they introduced legislation last month requiring U.S. Soccer to pay the men’s and women’s teams equally.
U.S. Soccer, which has disputed there’s a pay gap, responded by bringing on two lobbying firms, FBB Federal Relations and Van Ness Feldman, to help convince lawmakers the women’s claims are inaccurate.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/07/us-soccer-lobbyists-womens-national-team-not-underpaid-1452331
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