USWNT players reach settlement with U.S. Soccer for total of $24 million
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🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Meg Linehan and Steph Yang react to the USWNT players settlement with U.S. Soccer on a brand new live room on The Athletic!
Meg's story: https://theathletic.com/news/uswnt-players-reach-settlement-with-us-soccer-for-total-of-24-million-in-pay-discrimination-lawsuit/BXmnGmymxK4b/
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| 0:00.0 | So I've had a long night into this morning |
| 0:19.0 | this morning waking up at 625, but obviously some very, very big news on the U.S. national team equal pay front with the settlement now kind of in the proposal stage. |
| 0:32.2 | And so just to lay the groundwork, if folks haven't read the articles yet. There's a $22 million |
| 0:39.0 | payment on the table from U.S. soccer to the players involved in the lawsuit for equal pay, |
| 0:45.1 | an extra $2 million in a fund that's going to go to post-playing careers or charitable endeavors. |
| 0:51.4 | Part of the big kind of asterisk on this very great news for the day, though, is that this is all |
| 0:57.7 | contingent upon the new collective bargaining agreement for the next term between the U.S. |
| 1:05.3 | women's national team players association, the actual union and U.S. soccer being approved. And then also, all of this is happening against the landscapes of the U.S. soccer being approved. And then also all of this is happening against the landscapes of the U.S. soccer presidential election. So we've got a lot to talk about, to say the least. But Steph, I just wanted to get your first reaction of when you found out that a settlement had even happened. |
| 1:28.1 | I landed in Boston late last night, coming back from L.A., she believes. |
| 1:33.1 | I turned on my phone, and it went, you have 500 new messages, roughly, give or take. |
| 1:41.1 | I was like, oh, if something happened. |
| 1:43.0 | And then I was like, oh, something happened. And then I was like, oh, something happened. |
| 1:45.3 | So that is how I found out. Yeah. So it really was kind of an experience. Last night of, you know, |
| 1:53.7 | a few people got kind of a heads up of this is in the works. Obviously 630, Megan Rapino, Alex Morgan, Cindy Parlo-Cone going on the morning shows, right? |
| 2:03.9 | I spoke to Megan Rapino and Cindy Parlo-Cone. |
| 2:08.1 | It was kind of amusing because our call started with Megan Rapino being like, |
| 2:12.6 | please turn your camera on so I can make sure you're alive. |
| 2:16.3 | But it really is, you know, I think what really struck me |
| 2:20.5 | when I was talking to Pino even is that she was barely even kind of processing how big this felt. |
| 2:28.3 | And, you know, it was two people who have been around this from kind of the start, |
| 2:34.6 | back when it goes back to EEOC, |
| 2:36.3 | but really even before, I mean, |
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