{"id":66255,"date":"2026-02-13T08:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/mlr-leaders-hail-players-union-deal-as-us-league-heads-for-six-team-season\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T08:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:07:06","slug":"mlr-leaders-hail-players-union-deal-as-us-league-heads-for-six-team-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/mlr-leaders-hail-players-union-deal-as-us-league-heads-for-six-team-season\/","title":{"rendered":"MLR leaders hail players union deal as US league heads for six-team season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-sought collective bargaining agreement sealed after multiple franchise exits and with World Cups looming<\/p>\n<p>Leaders on both sides of the ball hailed a new collective bargaining agreement between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorleague.rugby\/\">Major League Rugby<\/a> and its players, the union chief welcoming \u201ca new standard\u201d for US professional men\u2019s rugby after a traumatic off-season in which four teams exited MLR and two merged, <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalmaul.substack.com\/p\/whats-next-for-mlr-us-mens-pro-league\">leaving just six on the field<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are happy with where the talks landed,\u201d United States Rugby Players Association executive director Chris Mattina, a former US Eagles wing, told the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/13\/mlr-leaders-hail-players-union-deal-as-us-league-heads-for-six-team-season\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-sought collective bargaining agreement sealed after multiple franchise exits and with World Cups looming Leaders on both sides of the ball hailed a new collective bargaining agreement between Major League Rugby and its players, the union chief welcoming \u201ca new standard\u201d for US professional men\u2019s rugby after a traumatic off-season in which four teams exited &#8230; <a title=\"MLR leaders hail players union deal as US league heads for six-team season\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/mlr-leaders-hail-players-union-deal-as-us-league-heads-for-six-team-season\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about MLR leaders hail players union deal as US league heads for six-team season\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}