2023-09-15 05:56:46
New victory for Spanish women’s football. Liga F players have ended their strike after obtaining salary increases, their union, Futpro, announced on the night of Wednesday to Thursday. The agreement signed between the players and Liga F provides for “a minimum salary of 21,000 euros for the 2023/24 season, 22,500 euros for the 2024/25 season and 23,500 euros for the 2025/26 season”, details Futpro in a statement.
In the absence of consensus between the unions and the players’ employers regarding their remuneration, they were went on strike on September 1st, for the first two days of the championship. The agreement announced Thursday between all parties therefore allows the players to return to the field this weekend to play the second day of their championship.
Until now, the minimum salary for female football players in the Spanish first division was only 16,000 euros per year. The unions demanded salaries “in keeping with the talent” of the players, some of whom were world champions with Spain on August 20.
“The efforts of the clubs during the negotiations contributed fundamentally to the necessary achievement of (social) peace without losing sight of the (economically) sustainable nature of the competition,” indicated for its part Liga F, which organizes the professional women’s championship.
“This step is the beginning”
This progress on players’ remuneration “is only the beginning”, warns Futpro, which is calling for improvements in the working conditions of players relating in particular to “maternity” leave, to the “(fight against) harassment protocol”. » and awaits progress on “other points equally important for the good development of the activity” of its female footballers.
This players’ strike movement came as Spanish women’s football was plunged into chaos following the scandal of the forced kiss of the president of the Federation Luis Rubiales to the world champion Jenni Hermoso after the world coronation of the “Roja”.
Rubiales ended up resigning on Sunday while one of his close friends, the coach of the world champion women’s team, Jorge Vilda, was fired last week and replaced by his deputy Montse Tomé, who became the first woman to occupy this position. post in Spain.
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Last season, a referees’ strike disrupted the start of the championship before the league agreed to increase their match fees and the Spanish government promised to contribute to a pension fund for referees.
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