INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The entire gamers on Crew Clark and Crew Collier warmed up for Saturday evening’s WNBA All-Star Game in shirts that learn “Pay us what you owe us.”
Under the textual content was a brand for the WNBPA, the gamers’ union, which introduced on social media in the course of the recreation that the shirts at the moment are on sale.
The shirts come after the gamers and the league failed to succeed in a brand new collective bargaining settlement at an in-person meeting Thursday. The league’s gamers opted out of their final CBA in October, and are in search of a greater revenue-sharing mannequin, elevated salaries, improved advantages and a softer wage cap.
“I’m simply so impressed by the quantity of gamers that confirmed up, the engagement that was there,” WNBPA President Nneka Ogwumike stated. “That’s actually what it’s all about. As a result of the extra that occurs, the extra that we’re going to have the ability to get issues carried out. I believe at present we’re going to have the ability to use this dialog to begin rolling the ball on issues.”
After the failed negotiations, many gamers stated there was a big discrepancy between what they wished and what the league was providing. If a brand new CBA isn’t reached by October some gamers, together with All-Stars Napheesa Collier and Angel Reese, have talked about the potential of a walkout.
