A gamers’ strike in Liga F, the skilled high tier of girls’s soccer in Spain, has ended after an settlement on a minimal wage was reached between the league and gamers’ unions.
The strike noticed all video games on matchday one of many 2023-24 Liga F season — which had been resulting from happen final weekend — postponed, with matchday two additionally underneath menace.
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A deal was struck between the league and the 5 unions representing gamers late on Wednesday, lower than 48 hours earlier than the following spherical of video games was resulting from kick off.
“After a brand new, lengthy spherical of negotiations, with the mediation of [public mediation service] SIMA, Liga F and the unions have reached an settlement in relation to a minimal wage, which permits for the calling off of the strike,” the league said in a statement.
“The events have signed an settlement for the following three seasons, which establishes a minimal [annual] wage of:
2023-24 season: €21,000, which might enhance to €23,000 relying on the expansion of the competitors’s business revenue.
2024-25 season: €22,500, which might enhance to €25,000 relying on the expansion of the competitors’s business revenue.
2025-26 season: €23,500, which might enhance to €28,000 relying on the expansion of the competitors’s business revenue.
This skilled league and its golf equipment have all the time defended the necessity to attain a long-term settlement which can give stability to the venture {of professional} ladies’s soccer, allowing a gradual and sustainable progress based mostly on the competitors’s improvement.”
In an announcement, the 5 unions — which embrace FUTpro, AFE and Futbolistas ON — stated that quite a few different points remained unresolved.
“This step is the start, and only one a part of an settlement,” the unions stated. “Now it is time to work on making progress on such necessary points as maternity, harassment protocols, compensation and others which we think about simply as necessary for the correct improvement of our footballers’ exercise.”
A nationwide ladies’s league has been performed in Spain since 1988.
The professionalisation of the highest tier was accepted by the nation’s Supreme Sports activities Council in 2021, with the primary absolutely skilled season being performed in 2022-23 with the launch of Liga F.
The earlier annual minimal wage for gamers — underneath a deal agreed in November 2019, after the final gamers’ strike — was set at €16,000.
Matchday 2 of the 2023-24 Liga F season will get underway on Friday as Actual Madrid go to Valencia, whereas champions Barcelona journey to Madrid CFF on Saturday.
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