WNBA and Players' Union Set New Ball-Stop Talks Amid 'Major League' Challenges
Both the WNBA and players' union feel progress is being made toward a new collective bargaining agreement, but they both say there's still work to be done to get a deal to the finish line. “We’re working as hard as we can to get it done as quickly as possible,” WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said after the early morning negotiations finished. It’s been a long week of discussions with the WNBA and union meeting face-to-face for more than 75 hours since the first in-person bargaining session on Tuesday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Both the WNBA and players' union feel progress is being made toward a new collective bargaining agreement , but they both say there's still work to be done to get a deal to the finish line. In-person talks entered a seventh consecutive day Monday afternoon after the previous session ended around 3 a. m.
in the morning. “We’re working as hard as we can to get it done as quickly as possible,” WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said after the early morning negotiations finished. “It’s complex.
There’s a lot. There’s a lot of system elements. There’s a lot of structure elements.
... This is a big, big league and we want to do everything we can for the players. So, we’re going to keep making progress.
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