Judge hears arguments on US women’s team strike rights

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge in Chicago has heard arguments whether the world champion U.S. women’s soccer team has the right to strike for improved conditions and wages before this year’s Olympics.
Lawyers for the U.S. Soccer Federation told Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman at a Thursday hearing that a no-strike clause is implied in a still-valid 2013 memorandum with players.
But a lawyer for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team Players Association balked at that claim. J