Football team to be American women from the terms of the collective agreement with American football, a federal judge ruled on Friday. This means that the decision that the players can not reach for the Olympic Games this summer in Rio seeking a better salary, but has no effect on the federal wage discrimination complaints separately by five players from this year.
The United States women’s national team before a friendly against Japan on June 2.
The decision on Friday by Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman in federal court in Chicago, was tight around the questions: about the team, represented by the Players Association, and a commitment to the terms of a collective agreement with the United States Football Association said both sides agreed that the judgment was issued in 2012 was a victory for football America, which has confirmed that the team ACB defeated, but said he lived in a Memorandum of Understanding was signed in early 2013. the EU said that the memorandum did not specifically to players' rights concerns, including the right to strike, and that the team was , therefore not binding.
Coleman was in its judgment of 13 pages is convinced that argument and said the MoU does not have explicit legal team that won the World Cup for women in Canada last summer, he told me.
He noted that trade between the former chancellor of the Union and Sunil Gulati, president of the players from the US and the EU have agreed to not eating spots "will remain the same as in the previous C.B.A." on the screen
