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Nevada Culinary Workers Union attacks UFC for paying women less than men, calls for equality

UFC superstar Ronda Rousey recently cracked Forbes' 'World's Highest-Paid Female Athletes 2015' Top 10 list, but that hasn't stopped some critics from calling out the "disparity" between male and female fighter pay.

The Nevada Culinary Workers Union Local 226, long-time nemesis of UFC, has started a website called fightersagenda.org which seems to be dedicated solely to slamming the mixed martial arts (MMA) organization and its practices.

In its newest piece, the union alleges gender discrimination by pointing out that after removing Rousey from the pay equation, women are making only 41 percent what their male colleagues make for what amounts to the same job:

We looked at the publicly available information on all UFC events in Las Vegas going back to November 16, 2012, when the women's division was created, until January 3, 2015.