with the 3-on-3 league Unrivaled<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI think we\u2019ll learn a lot from this meeting. I\u2019m not trying to put it on the meeting, but this is a meeting that I think everyone understands what\u2019s at stake,” Plum said. “The league has their timelines; we as players understand what\u2019s at stake. I always come into anything that I do with a great attitude, and I\u2019m going to see the best in this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Plum will be joined at the meeting by other members of the executive council, including Nneka Ogwumike and Napheesa Collier, as well as union leadership.<\/p>\n
The league will have its regular negotiating team, including WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert, the labor relations committee and a few other owners, according to a person familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n
The person spoke on condition of anonymity Friday because of the sensitive nature of the negotiations.<\/p>\n
The person said the league had been asking for the meeting for a few weeks and it was agreed upon by the union Thursday.<\/p>\n
Players said union leadership had been coming to chat with them frequently, including this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth sides want to get something done, we just got to make moves to get there,” Rachel Banham said. \u201dIt’s got to be an actual negotiation with compromise.”<\/p>\n
Natasha Cloud took a more hardened stance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA and the players’ union will meet Monday in New York for the first time in several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-444974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444974","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=444974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}