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COLLECTIVE labor agreements; TEAMS in the workplace

Instead, the league is still navigating the fallout from last year, when players from multiple teams spoke out about verbal abuse, sexual harassment and unsafe training environments. "Players in the early aughts - we were concerned about making the league look bad or making our teams look bad because everything felt so tenuous and fragile", says NWSL Players Association executive director Meghann Burke, herself a retired goalkeeper who played in those past leagues. As long as there had been an NWSL, there had been an implicit message that players should just be grateful they had any U.S. pro league at all - no matter how poor the conditions. CHANGE IN THE NWSL B It's hard for the Washington Spirit to find the language for what they experienced last season. b After a roller-coaster playoff run, the club won the NWSL championship in November, securing victory with a header in extra time from U.S. women's national team fixture Kelley O'Hara. [Extracted from the article]

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