U.S. Women’s Soccer Equal Pay Appeal Gets Assist From AFL-CIO

The U.S. women’s soccer team can prove pay discrimination even though the collective bargaining agreement it signed with the sport’s governing body is different than the agreement the men’s team signed, the nation’s largest federation of unions told the Ninth Circuit in the landmark sex bias case.

A federal judge in Los Angeles dismissed the women’s players equal pay claims in May 2020, saying in part that the team’s having negotiated a separate pay scheme with the U.S. Soccer Federation that included guaranteed salaries and other fixed compensation that was absent from the men’s players’ separately bargained-for “pay-for-play” compensation structure ...