{"id":353647,"date":"2025-12-18T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/353647\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:56:08","slug":"wnbpas-terri-jackson-cites-frustrations-in-continued-wnba-labor-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/353647\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBPA\u2019s Terri Jackson cites frustrations in continued WNBA labor talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">WNBPA Exec Dir Terri Jackson said that she \u201cremains \u2018frustrated\u2019 by the lack of progress toward a new collective bargaining agreement\u201d as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/11\/30\/wnba-and-union-near-sunday-night-extension-deadline-without-cba-resolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/11\/30\/wnba-and-union-near-sunday-night-extension-deadline-without-cba-resolution\/\">WNBA\u2019s new deadline to reach a deal approaches<\/a>, according to Alex Sherman of CNBC.com. Jackson said, \u201cWe\u2019re staying open to the fact that these negotiations will continue, because they must. We\u2019ll be at the table for as long as they take, and we\u2019re hopeful that there\u2019s enough folks on the team side of things that will start to push these things along.\u201d She mentioned that she \u201ccontinues to negotiate\u201d with WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert on a new labor deal for the league. Jackson \u201cdeclined to mention specifics about where the negotiations have stalled,\u201d citing her nondisclosure agreement. However, she said, \u201cEverything seems to still be a sticking point.\u201d Jackson said that despite the frustrations, the union \u201cremains hopeful that it can get a deal done before the imposed deadline.\u201d She \u201cemphasized that she\u2019s working hard to get a deal done by Jan. 9.\u201d Jackson: \u201cWill there be another extension? There shouldn\u2019t be another extension. \u2026 We understand their position and point of view. They understand our position and point of view\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/12\/17\/wnba-collective-bargaining-labor-union-updates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNBC.com, 12\/17<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WNBPA Exec Dir Terri Jackson said that she \u201cremains \u2018frustrated\u2019 by the lack of progress toward a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,49,48,82,630,4143],"class_list":["post-353647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353647","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=353647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}