Hot Take: Meghann Burke, Executive Director of the NWSL Players Association

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this Hot Take, Lindsay Gibbs interviews Meghann Burke, former WSA and WPS soccer player, now lawyer and Executive Director of the NWSL Players Association, who is pushing for the league's first CBA. They discuss their recent #NoMoreSideHustles campaign, the need for better player health and safety, fair contracts and livable wages, and how the Players Association stands with other labor movements. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, hello, hello, flame
0:10.8	ers, Lindsay here.
0:12.2	So excited for this special hot take edition of Burn it All Down, where joining us is
0:18.7	Megan Burke, the executive director of the NWSL Players Association, I believe, is a formal title.
0:25.4	That's something I should have in front of me.
0:27.3	You got it.
0:28.2	You nailed it.
0:28.8	Yes.
0:29.4	Thank you so much for joining us today.
0:32.8	Lindsay, thank you so much for having me.
0:34.4	I can't resist the name like burn it all down.
0:36.2	So I appreciate being with
0:38.1	you guys. It's a very union friendly title. That's right. So we're going to get into it all.
0:48.9	The No More Side Hustles Campaign, negotiations, all that. But just to give us a little background, because this is our
0:55.2	first time talking, like, how did you get here? Like, how did you get to this job?
1:02.5	Why are we here? Existential questions. Yeah. You know, the honest answer is that never in my
1:08.7	wildest dreams that I think this would be like a job.
1:12.9	You know, it certainly has been a passion and I feel like the luckiest person are to be in this
1:18.1	position. So I am a former player. You know, I have often said that my playing career sort of
1:24.5	tracked the story and the history of women's professional soccer in this
1:29.0	country during that kind of time frame, you know, all the excitement of WSA on the heels of the 99
1:35.3	World Cup, which was the year I graduated high school. I played at St. Louis University and
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