{"id":318556,"date":"2025-12-01T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/318556\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:39:08","slug":"wnba-players-union-agree-to-40-day-bargaining-pact-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/318556\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA, players’ union agree to 40-day bargaining pact extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec. 1 (UPI) — The WNBA and WNBA Players Association agreed to extend the current collective bargaining agreement through Jan. 9 as talks for a new deal continue.<\/p>\n

The league announced the extension Sunday, which marked the end of a 30-day extension to which the parties had agreed.<\/p>\n

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“The WNBA and WNBPA have agreed to extend the current CBA … with either party having the option to terminate the extension with 48 hours’ advance notice,” the league said. “The WNBA and WNBPA are continuing to work toward a new agreement.”<\/p>\n

Free agency, which typically starts in January, and the expansion draft are unlikely to happen until ratification of an agreement.<\/p>\n

Pay structure and revenue sharing are among the contentious points in negotiations for the new agreement. NBA and NHL players receive 50% of their league revenues. NFL players receive 48% of league revenue. WNBA players receive about 9% of revenue sharing.<\/p>\n

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Players also prioritize professional facilities and essential resources for all teams and retirement and pregnancy protection.<\/p>\n

“Remember — the last CBA was negotiated in January of 2020, which came after a 30-day extension and was groundbreaking,” WNBPA president Nneka Ogwumike wrote in an October post on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The players are more focused, united, and determined than ever to reach an agreement that reflects their value and undeniable impact on the league.”<\/p>\n

The 2026 WNBA Draft is to be held April 13. The 2026 regular season is scheduled to start in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 1 (UPI) — The WNBA and WNBA Players Association agreed to extend the current collective bargaining agreement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,4233,9963,141662,4653,535,82,630,38381,11043],"class_list":["post-318556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cba","tag-collective-bargaining-agreement","tag-nfl-players","tag-nneka-ogwumike","tag-revenue-sharing","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-draft","tag-wnba-players"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318556","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=318556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}