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The Victory Press spoke to several former NWHL players about the working conditions they experienced during their time in the league. Their combined experiences paint a picture of a league that struggled to meet its workers' basic needs.
PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE RIGHT NOW
edit: it has been comfirmed that the the bulk of the player experiences in the article are in reference to the 2018-19 season and precipitated the PWHPA.
By Kirsten Whelan
On Monday, the players who have joined the #ForTheGame pledge announced the creation of the Professional Women's Hockey Players Association, which was officially founded on Friday, May 17. The PWHPA isn't a labor union; it's a standard non-profit, incorporated by attorney Dee Spagnuolo in the state of Pennsylvania, where the players' legal team at Ballard Spahr is located. The players are united -- but not formally unionized.
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"It's not a corporate union where we're fighting against an organization or fighting for rights within an organization, because we're not within an organization," explained former Markham Thunder goalie and CWHLPA co-chair Liz Knox. "But basically, it was necessary. Until this point, we've just been trying to communicate within ourselves and organize ourselves. We kind of recognized the need that there's a lot of people that want to support us, one way or another. So it's like, okay, we need to put some people in place, some bodies in place, to make sure that we have the right structure to take in the support that might be out there, the resources that are out there, and just help organize our personnel and make sure that everyone is under one roof.”
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Alternate Titles included: "Hell is Empty And All The Conference Calls Are Here", "We Accept The Lawsuits We Think We Deserve", and "We Engaged In Lawsuits The Way You Fall Asleep, Slowly And Then All At Once."
So this episode is a bit of a recap of what's been happening in the world of women's hockey. We talked about the Beauts/NWHL lawsuit nonsense, what the PWHPA is gonna be doing, and also women's hockey's continuing problem with transparency and communicating with the media.
The transcript for this episode can be found here.
Links:
Why Bryan Hicks was chosen to lead the Professional Women's Hockey Players Association
NWHL Suing Buffalo Beauts Hockey
And while we didn't touch on it in the episode, this article about the CWHL, and the stuff leading up to it shutting down is pretty good, if you don't read french then google translate should work well enough.
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SO i just bought 2 virtual tickets to the new hampshire Dream Gap Tour showcase! (i bought one and convinced my sister to do the same)
as a reminder, those tickets will allow a young girl playing hockey in the region to go to the game for free, and witness many incredible professional athletes prove that a woman’s place is in sports! The PWHPA works with local associations to make sure young girls get go see those games and be inspired.
You can buy virtual tickets for the Toronto showcase here for 15 USD/ticket, and here for the New Hampshire one for 25 USD/ticket.
Let’s go support women’s hockey in all the ways we can
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#ForTheGame
In case you hadn’t heard, last month the CWHL announced that they would be ceasing operations May 1, 2019.
Today, May 2 more than 200 professional women’s hockey players released a coordinated announcement stating that they will not play for any professional hockey league in North America next season.
Players who have announced their support for the movement include Marie-Philip Poulin, Hilary Knight, Brigette Lacquette, Natalie Spooner, Amanda Kessel, Kendall Coyne Schofield, Shannon Szabados, Hannah Brandt, Gigi Marvin, Megan Bozek and players in the NCAA, Sweden’s SDHL, and across the globe.
Details are still forthcoming and more players are making public announcement as the day goes on. You can read more about it at The Ice Garden.
