{"id":355192,"date":"2025-12-19T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/355192\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:37:16","slug":"wnba-players-union-authorizes-executive-committee-to-call-strike-when-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/355192\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA players union authorizes executive committee to call strike when necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Basketball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WNBA players have authorized their union&#8217;s executive council to call a strike if necessary, the union announced Thursday as it continues to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement with the league.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sides not close to reaching agreement on increased salaries and revenue sharing<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/basketball\/author\/doug-feinberg-1.4617724\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doug Feinberg<\/a>  \u00b7 The Associated Press  \u00b7 Posted: Dec 18, 2025 5:44 PM EST | Last Updated: 10 hours ago<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 3 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark practises during the United States women\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Basketball WNBA players have authorized their union&#8217;s executive council to call a strike if necessary, the union announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-355192","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\/355192","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=355192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}