CBA SZN: The USWNT Edition
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Becca Roux, executive director of the USWNT Players Association, joins Full Time to discuss the collective bargaining agreement between the USWNT and U.S. Soccer, now available for everyone to read. From equal pay and equal prize money to safe working conditions and other important things to know from the document, Becca is here to provide the breakdown whether or not you opt to read the whole PDF. And: we talk about the infamous scrimmage against a boys team in 2017.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to full-time with Meglanahan. |
| 0:17.8 | You are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the athletic podcast network. Becca Rue, executive director of the U.S. Women's National Team Players Association, |
| 0:25.6 | is back on the show. This time we have a completed collective bargaining agreement. |
| 0:30.9 | Now, while we've known some of the major details, you know, equal pay, for a while, this is the |
| 0:35.8 | first time that we're actually going to have a chance |
| 0:37.6 | to read through the entire document that should now be available on the U.S. Women's National |
| 0:43.5 | Team Players Association website. Now, much like Megan Burke came on the show to help guide us |
| 0:48.4 | through the NWSL CBA, Becca's offer to do the same, which also gives us a chance to maybe |
| 0:53.5 | expand upon some of the bigger things in this giant document that aren't equal pay, and to explain some of the context around how we got to finally having this PDF to read through. |
| 1:04.6 | Now, before we get to the rest of today's episode, as always, you can show your support of full-time, plus get all of our women's soccer coverage and everything else the athletic has to offer on our site and on our app. You can subscribe right now at theathletic.com slash full-time. It's always one of our very best deals, and also it's good timing ahead of the men's World Cup. Now, this is a pretty hefty episode, so the news recap will be back next week. And honestly, apologies in advance. |
| 1:28.2 | If my voice sounds a little weird this episode, well, fortunately not COVID, apparently I have |
| 1:32.5 | given into what used to be the very traditional end of NWSL season cold this year. I have not |
| 1:38.6 | missed this. Beckeru is the executive director.S. Women's National Team Players Association. |
| 1:44.6 | She was on the pitch at Audi Field alongside players like Crystal Dunn, Sam U.S. and Becky Sauerbrun for the signing of the team's new collective bargaining agreement with U.S. soccer. |
| 1:53.9 | And she's here to discuss this very document. |
| 1:57.9 | I want to start with this. |
| 1:59.9 | Oh, wait, do we get to do like a hello? |
| 2:01.6 | No, I just, because I do all the intro atro before. |
| 2:03.6 | Great. |
| 2:04.6 | No, I try to, we're just going to launch right in. |
| 2:07.6 | Great, okay. |
| 2:08.6 | I do want to start with this concept, though, of for so long, the U.S. Women's National |
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