The Oakland Raiders football team pays a bunch of worthless football players millions of dollars for losing and they pay their cheerleaders $1250 a season.
from ESPN: The Oakland Raiders are being sued by current and former cheerleaders claiming wage theft and other unfair employment practices.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Alameda County Superior Court alleges that the organization withholds all pay from the Raiderettes until the end of the season, does not pay for all hours worked and forces the cheerleaders to pay many of their own business expenses.
According to the filing, Raiders cheerleaders are paid $1,250 per season, which amounts to less than $5 per hour for the time they spend rehearsing, performing and appearing at events for which they are not compensated.
The team had no comment on the lawsuit.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10334429/cheerleaders-file-suit-oakland-raiders-wage-theft-unfair-employment-practices
My guess is that the Raider cheerleaders probably had a more successful season, decade and probably quarter century than the Raider football team, in which Al Davis and family paid hundreds of millions of dollars.
My guess is that the ladies signed contracts and the one thing the NFL is good at, is contracts, so the ladies may not win the lawsuit.
But they will look good in court, and that will help if they get an all male jury of 20 somethings straight men.
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