On Monday, nearly 40 days after Major League Soccer announced to the MLS Players’ Association that it would invoke its rights under the force majeure clause in the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the league and players announced that they have agreed to and ratified a new CBA.
If you feel like you’re having deja vu all over again it’s because you are. MLS and the MLSPA agreed to a new CBA just before the start of the 2020 season. Due to how close to the start of the season the deal was reached and then the timing of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CBA was not ratified before play was paused, so the league brought the players back to the negotiation table before a return to play in 2020 could be agreed to.