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“The history of negotiations between the parties demonstrates that the WNT [women's national team] rejected an offer to be paid under the same pay-to-play structure as the MNT [men's national tea“The history of negotiations between the parties demonstrates that the WNT [women's national team] rejected an offer to be paid under the same pay-to-play structure as the MNT [men's national team], and the WNT was willing to forgo higher bonuses for benefits, such as greater base compensation and the guarantee of a higher number of contracted players,” Klausner wrote in his opinion.

“Accordingly, plaintiffs cannot now retroactively deem their CBA [collective bargaining agreement] worse than the MNT CBA by reference to what they would have made had they been paid under the MNT’s pay-to-play terms structure when they themselves rejected such a structure,” he explained.m], and the WNT was willing to forgo higher bonuses for benefits, such as greater base compensation and the guarantee of a higher number of contracted players,” Klausner wrote in his opinion.