The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Association (DCCA) has been recognized by the Cowboys as the collective bargaining representative of the DCC, according to a Friday news release from the parties. The recognition comes after “meaningful discussion” between the team and the newly-formed union, and the parties are set to begin collective bargaining, the release said.<\/p>\n
Tad Carper, the Cowboys’ senior vice president of communications, confirmed the union to\u00a0The Dallas Morning News,\u00a0but declined to offer further comment. The DCCA\u00a0did not immediately respond to a request for further comment.<\/p>\n
The move comes after years of discussion\u00a0around the pay for the cheerleaders, who are one of the most recognized dance squads in the world. The cheerleaders’ salary was a major plot point in Season 2 of Netflix’s docuseries “America’s Sweethearts,” which has profiled the team over the past few seasons. During that season of the show, the dancers said they got a 400% pay raise<\/a>.<\/p>\n Former dancers have\u00a0revealed<\/a> how little the team has made even as its profile has risen through TV shows and other outlets. In the 2010s, the Cowboys were the defendants in a fair-wage lawsuit from three-year veteran Erica Wilkins, with reporting on the suit indicating she only made about $16,000 in her highest-earning year with the team. During the Cowboys’ heyday in the 1990s, the cheerleaders\u00a0reportedly made<\/a>\u00a0$15 per game, which later rose to $50 per game before the turn of the century.<\/p>\n Staff writer Calvin Watkins contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Association (DCCA) has been recognized by the Cowboys as the collective bargaining representative of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[732,102,104,103,143592,91555,92356],"class_list":["post-474714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-article","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dwf-celebrities","tag-tp-celebrities","tag-tp-dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}