re: Judge sides with U.S. Soccer in USWNT's equal pay lawsuit

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If you give $10k to two teams, one team has 30 players and the other has only 23, can you really say you paid them equally?

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But the per-game compensation, to my knowledge, is on top of the base salary contracts for 44 players in the women's game, with 20 contracted at 100k with the WNT, 11 at 67k and 11 at 62k in the NWSL. Not only that, the women get a ticket-revenue share, insurance, payments for image rights, and the promise that the USSF will schedule a minimum number of WNT games, all of which are not in the men's CBA. With those calculations, it is impossible to argue that the per-game compensation for the men is actually higher, regardless of what the individual payouts were.

And again, if such a per-game, per-player compensation report would have showed favorable circumstances to the women's team, then the lawyer's for the team more than likely would have argued for it. They didn't, nor did they show a "comparable male employee" who was compensated at a rate above the women.

In fact, in the summary judgement itself, the defendant's expert finds that the average per-game compensation of the 4 WNT class representatives was $11,356 to $17,416, while the four highest MNT players made an average of $10,360 to $13,964. This was apparently not disputed by the WNT, and this does not include some of the other parts of total compensation which count as wages which I referred to above.

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Do we know that, or did they just take the total that they paid the teams and said they each played x amount of games?

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What are you talking about? This is from the CBA itself. This is separate from the per-game compensation.

The CBA is pretty hard to find. I was looking for it earlier this evening.

Anyone see this fricking ridiculous tweet from Joe Biden?

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Joe Biden
@JoeBiden
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9h
To
@USWNT
: don’t give up this fight. This is not over yet.

To
@USSoccer
: equal pay, now. Or else when I'm president, you can go elsewhere for World Cup funding

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Is this jack hole threatening to defund the 2026 World Cup over some made up bullshite by the women?

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To @USWNT: don’t give up this fight. This is not over yet. To @USSoccer: equal pay, now. Or else when I'm president, you can go elsewhere for World Cup funding.

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Like I said in the msb thread, it's a rediculous statement. No president would endanger a 30 billion boost to the economy over this.

I almost wish US Soccer would call Biden out on such a ridiculous statement.

Honestly, it was a very Trump-esque twitter move

WGAF

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I’d usually be more sympathetic, but the constant jabs at the men’s team performance make me wish that the resolution would involve a men v. women friendly

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I'm definitely going to leave my leg out a little longer when I play in my co-ed league again, and then do that innocent gesture with my hands, like "oops, I didn't mean to do that" when in fact I did mean to do it.

Have to “accidentally” step on them when you help them up too

Dallas loaded up on Birmingham kids.

Tessmann, Servania, Richards, etc.