America’s legendary exporter, Hope Solo, has charged harshly against the recent agreement for equal pay in the United States, a historic pact that will be an important step forward in the battle for equality in soccer but that the popular former player has described as “infuriating and heartbreaking”.
Hope Solo She has not held her tongue when it comes to warning that “you have to read the fine print” of said agreement, by which the players of the United States team will receive the same salary as their men’s teammates and for which they will give themselves 24 million dollars to the selection. The exporter has criticized that said agreement is subject to the signing of the long-awaited collective agreement between the US Federation and the players of the American League -NWSL-, who had threatened to start a strike at the gates of the start of the competition if your requirements are not met.
“Read the fine print: ‘Subject to negotiation of a new collective agreement,'” he wrote. Solo in a social media post. “It doesn’t exist yet and it’s not guaranteed,” she added.
“If the players had ever been successful in negotiating an equal collective bargaining agreement, there would have been no reason to sue the federation in the first place.” Hope Solo in his criticism of it.
Hope Solo, winner of two Olympic gold medals and a World Cup during her career, said the promise of equal pay and “back pay for a select group of players” was not real equal pay: “This deal is not a ‘big win’ ‘. It’s heartbreaking and infuriating,” she wrote.
It should be remembered that the players have already sued the US soccer governing body. In 2019 for 66 million dollars for accusations of gender discrimination due to the difference in earnings and resources compared to their peers.
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Before, in 2016, Solo was part of the group of five USWNT players along with Carli Lloyd, Becky Sauerbrunn, Alex Morgan y Megan Rapinoe who filed a pay discrimination lawsuit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), claiming they were paid less than the men’s team players even though they generated more revenue for US Soccer.
The NWSL’s collective bargaining agreement expired on December 31, but was extended until March 31. The federation is waiting for it to be renewed, although at the moment there is no consensus with the players.
The president of the US soccer federation, Cindy Parlow Cone, told Reuters that they had met with the USWNT Players Association several times a week and that negotiations were moving forward. However, it might seem that this new equal pay deal has come about in haste on the alarm of a possible strike in the NWSL.