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The National Women's Soccer League made history on February 1 with the creation of the first collective bargaining agreement [https://twitter.com/nwsl_players/status/1488326369222094850] in professional women's soccer. The announcement came on the eve of the start of the league's tenth preseason, ensuring
The Premier Hockey Federation was slated to return to action this weekend; however, both series have been postponed due to COVID protocols affecting the Minnesota Whitecaps and Boston Pride. Despite the delay in the PHF's return to the ice, there's been a handful of news
Sports are labor and athletes are workers. This job exists because we've created an economy that globally supports it, albeit only for an extremely narrow subset of athletes sustainably. The most successful sports leagues and franchises are often ones that make profit in alignment with
Despite 200+ women's hockey players proclaiming their support #ForTheGame and their intention not to play in any North American professional league in the 2019-2020 season, and in spite of several other complications, the National Women's Hockey League has declared its intentions to continue on with
Being a worker is, well, work, and in order to secure the rights of workers, formal unions and collective action have been used throughout history. What constitutes a labor organization or union is largely dependent on IRS regulations in the United States, but you can
In a press release distributed via LinkedIn on May 23, the NWHLPA announced that it had reached an agreement with the league on a form contract that "includes significant improvements to player benefits." The release lists what it describes as highlights of the agreement, including