Angel Reese makes more WNBA history
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Reese wants to be a union leader — and she’s already speaking up. Current members of the executive committee see a natural fit.
The players' union and the WNBA met for crucial CBA negotiations in Indianapolis on Thursday. While some progress was made, the union feels it was a 'missed opportunity.'
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin, who focuses on the role of women in the American economy, has been advising the WNBPA in its CBA negotiations.
Each of the three newest expansion teams joins the league paying a record $250 million expansion fee. The new Golden State expansion team has been an immediate success and is now worth over $500 million, according to Sportico, after paying just a $50 million expansion fee to enter the league. That’s a WNBA-record valuation, and the union knows it.
Angel Reese criticized the WNBA's collective bargaining proposal as 'disrespectful' after players and the league failed to come to an agreement Thursday.
The first in-person meeting the league and union since December lasted for a couple of hours and ended with no resolution on the CBA.
A record number of players attended Thursday’s meeting between the WNBA and WNBPA, with further negotiations coming soon.
The Women's National Basketball Players Association and the WNBA appeared no closer to finding common ground on a labor agreement on Thursday, as negotiations continued amid fears over a potential work stoppage.
The WNBA is on the clock. The players union set a tone of urgency Tuesday by posting a simple graphic on its social media pages — a clock counting down to a potential work stoppage on Nov. 1. For months the Women’s National Basketball Players Association had publicly signaled that it saw a work stoppage as only a last resort while negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement with the