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Kibner: Oct 21, 2008; Acguy Supremacy

Found this article about the first CBA in women's hockey and it goes into a lot of what makes forming a strong union and getting support difficult but still worthwhile: https://defector.com/womens-hockey-pwhl-pwhpa-labor-cba

Particularly of note to me is this paragraph:

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It's peculiar, if not surprising, that women athletes so often must defend their employers. In women's sports, the best players in the world are conscripted as ambassadors. They work this second job for no pay. Their task is to plead two related but meaningfully different cases: that what they love to do can be a viable business, and that what they love to do must be done in a stable working environment. In the interest of the first fight, it might seem reasonable to downplay the second. There's no easy way to say that what you do matters while simultaneously pointing out everything that suggests the opposite. This tension spans generations. When Jayna Hefford returned home from victories in Salt Lake City or Turin, no one wanted to hear about funding and infrastructure. They wanted a good Canadian girl to say the women's game was growing, that its future was bright, that it was charging forward. They loved a simple story of progress, no matter how true.