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The Canadian women’s national soccer team has known as off its strike and resumed coaching after the game’s governing physique Canada Soccer threatened authorized motion, players mentioned on February 11.
A day earlier, captain Christine Sinclair advised Canada’s The Sports Network (TSN) that the team was happening strike following cuts to its program and pay fairness considerations.
In a statement posted on Twitter, the Players’ Association mentioned that Canada Soccer thought-about the strike “unlawful,” and that players “cannot afford the risks that personal action against us by Canada Soccer will create,” as they “have received no compensation yet for any of our work for Canada Soccer in 2022.”
Canada Soccer mentioned in its personal statement that it “respects the players’ right to organize” however that players “were not and are not in a legal strike position under Ontario labor law.”
It added that it was “not prepared to jeopardize” the upcoming SheBelieves Cup, the team’s preparations for the Women’s World Cup in 5 months and the experiences of “countless fans.”
Canada, the reigning girls’s soccer Olympic champion, is scheduled to face the United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) on February 16 in its first match of the SheBelieves Cup.
“To be clear,” Sinclair tweeted. “We are being forced back to work for the short term. This is not over. We will continue to fight for everything we deserve and we will win. The She Believes is being played in protest.”
Representatives from the Players’ Association met with Canada Soccer for a gathering on Saturday, each events mentioned.
Canada Soccer added that it has dedicated to negotiating a complete collective settlement with each the Women’s and Men’s National Teams which “will be an historic deal that will deliver real change and pay equity.”
The players mentioned in a February 10 assertion that they’d been negotiating with Canada Soccer for greater than a yr and are now “being told to prepare to perform at a world-class level without the same level of support that was received by the Men’s National Team in 2022.”
Training camps have been lower for the ladies’s team, in addition to the variety of players and workers invited and the already restricted youth program, the players’ assertion mentioned.
“We expect and deserve nothing less than to be treated equally and fairly and to have our program – and our World Cup preparations – funded appropriately,” it added.
CNN reached out to Canada Soccer and Sport Canada for touch upon Saturday however had not obtained a response by the point of publication.