Service & Solidarity Spotlight: WNBA Players Unanimously Vote Yes on New CBA

Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story.

WNBPA members voted unanimously to ratify their new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), securing transformative landmark provisions for women’s sports.

The seven-year contract establishes a historic revenue-sharing model, immediately quadrupling the salary cap for the 2026 season. It will be reviewed annually based on league and team revenue growth. Other bargaining wins include increases to maximum and minimum salaries, an expanded regular season starting in 2027 and more.

“Over these past months, this group showed exactly who they are, prepared, relentless, and united when it mattered most, with a clear understanding that their value drives this business and when players win, the league wins,” said WNBPA Executive Director Terri Carmichael Jackson. “This agreement delivers what players set out to do from the beginning, transforming the economics of this league. It marks a new era led by players who know their power and chose to use it.”

“The players made huge gains with this historic contract, a testament to the excitement they deliver on the court and their courage and determination in fighting for women’s equality off it,” said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. “Everything we’ve ever won—every contract, organizing fight and strike—was won because we stuck together. America’s unions celebrate with our WNBPA sisters on this critical victory.”

Kenneth Quinnell Thu, 03/26/2026 - 09:32

This Country Was Built By Unions, Not Kids: What Working People Are Doing This Week

Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the country and beyond. The labor movement is big and active—here's a look at the broad range of activities we're engaged in this week.

Actors' Equity:

Join us for Equity 101, a Zoom class that to deepen your understanding of what being a union member is all about. Save the date: Monday, March 30 at 7 p.m. ET. / 6 p.m. CT / 5 p.m. MT / 4 p.m. PT. RSVP the portal - https://bit.ly/4bJq0tp

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— Actors' Equity Association (@actorsequity.bsky.social) March 25, 2026 at 12:05 PM

AFGE:

Paying employees for their work is not a partisan issue. Congress needs to stop playing games with people's livelihoods and do their jobs! https://t.co/RoUhEc1knc

— AFGE (@AFGENational) March 25, 2026

AFSCME:

Workers at Connecticut’s Mystic Seaport Museum want a voice in the institution’s future. They’re fighting to form a union through @AFSCMECT4 — another victory for our union’s Cultural Workers United campaign https://t.co/gMj2Ydok8i

— AFSCME (@AFSCME) March 24, 2026

Alliance for Retired Americans: