Inside the landmark new NWSL CBA with Brianna Pinto

Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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It is another monumental day for the National Women's Soccer League Players Association. On Thursday, the NWSLPA announced that it had agreed terms for a new collective bargaining agreement through the 2030 season. The new CBA is effective immediately and comes just two years after the NWSL and its players signed the first-ever union contract in the league's history. So, on this week's Full Time podcast, Meg Linehan and Steph Yang broke down what this landmark CBA means for the league and the players. From new minimum salaries to the major decision to abolish the draft, and a milestone revenue-sharing model. Why change the CBA now? And why these specific changes? Later on, to help take the listener inside the negotiations, NWSL PA representative and North Carolina Courage midfielder Brianna Pinto also joined the podcast. She shared the players' point of view on how the new CBA was drawn up, what demands were essential for a better league, and what it was like to be a part of the five-player group that went to the table with the league to broker the deal this past July. Before closing out the show, Meg and Steph give their thoughts on the San Diego Wave's hiring of Landon Donovan as the club's new interim head coach. While also debating what the new CBA means for the teams at the bottom of the NWSL standings. Which of the struggling clubs (if any) will be able to crash the playoffs? _______________ HOST: Meg Linehan GUEST: Steph Yang, Brianna Pinto PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen _______________ Articles & previous shows mentioned on the pod: 2022 Full-Time episode: Let's Break Down The NWSL CBA! NWSL Players Association ratifies first collective bargaining agreement Why USL Super League isn’t looking to compete with NWSL: What to expect from new league Landon Donovan acknowledges ‘steep’ NWSL learning curve as Wave’s interim head coach ________________ Get in touch: [email protected] Follow on Instagram and TikTok: @tafulltime Subscribe to the Full Time newsletter here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.7	Hello and welcome to full-time with Meg Linnehan. I am your host, Meg Linahan.
0:44.1	Tamara Griffin is on vacation, so I am joined by my friend and fellow writer at the Athletic, Steph Young.
0:46.2	Steph, how are you doing?
0:55.2	I'm sorry. Full time with Meg Linahan. I am lit. Meglinahan recalls the worst experience of my life introducing myself, going up to Stephanie McAfrey and saying, hello Stephanie, I am also Stephanie.
0:58.8	I mean, the number of times that I've been with Megan Rapino and someone says Megan
1:03.1	behind us and both of us look and I'm like, that wasn't for me.
1:06.3	Yeah.
1:07.5	Good times.
1:08.4	But stuff, how are you?
1:10.5	Still waking up at 2 a.m over hello stephanie i am also
1:13.8	stephanie in a just cold sweat of awkwardness but that's not unusual other than that we've got
1:21.6	some olympic rest maybe in the bag question mark kind? Kind of. Kind of.
1:30.0	I mean, I still am waking up at 5 a.m.
1:36.9	Although part of that is just because the dog is now back home and the dog is now also a senior lady and loves a good 5 a.m. wake up.
1:39.7	But stuff, I want to talk to you about WNBA.
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