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The United States Soccer Federation, the United States Women’s National Team Players Association, and the United States National Soccer Team Players Association announced historic collective bargaining agreements on Wednesday which will equalize pay between men and women who play for the United States. The two contracts are slated to run through 2028 and represent the culmination of the USWNTPA’s fight for equal pay which has lasted for years.
Back in February USSF agreed to a settlement with the USWNTPA after a six year long legal battle. The two sides reached an agreement that included $22 million to the named USWNT players in the case, and USSF agreed to establish a players fund with $2 million to benefit players during their post-soccer careers and invest in charitable efforts aimed at growing the sport for women.
U.S. Soccer also included a promise to provide an equal rate of pay for both the women’s and men’s national teams that would include World Cup bonuses, but all that was contingent on the two players unions ratifying new collective bargaining agreements. Now, two months after the agreement to settle, the three sides have two new contracts for each respective players union.
For USWNT player Margaret Purce, the agreement is part of the bigger picture of worker’s rights in this country. “I think everything that goes on in the United States is pretty interconnected. You know, we are workers, and I do think that life outside of the sports lens still merges with that,” she said. “So yeah, I think that we came together as laborers. I think that we had negotiations with our employers, and I think we came out at the end of it, and everybody was really happy with the deal. So yeah, I think just to some extent, everything is pretty related.”
Purce along with USSF President Cindy Parlow Cone, USWNTPA Executive Director Becca Roux, and USWNT player Walker Zimmerman all sat down…
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