{"id":254463,"date":"2025-11-01T11:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/254463\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T11:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:45:08","slug":"take-action-tell-the-wnba-players-deserve-a-higher-salary-and-better-working-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/254463\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Action: Tell the WNBA Players Deserve a Higher Salary and Better Working Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last October, WNBA players opted out of their 2020 collective bargaining agreement to demand higher salaries, a real revenue share system, better working conditions and improved player benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after months of stalling negotiations, the WNBA and team owners continue to ignore player demands and jeopardize the future of women\u2019s professional basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Will you send an email to WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and other stakeholders? <a href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/letters\/wnba-players-deserve-a-higher-salary-and-better-working-conditions\/?clear_id=true&amp;source=direct_link&amp;referrer=group-new-york-city-central-labor-council\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to send an email<\/a> to tell Engelbert and Silver to stop playing games, negotiate in good faith and pay the players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last October, WNBA players opted out of their 2020 collective bargaining agreement to demand higher salaries, a real&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-254463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}