In answer to your question:
The MLS and the players are currently deadlocked. The players get paid ridiculously low wages pretty much across the board (around 55K pounds-- a year!). On the other hand, soccer isn't a big ticket item for us.
As said before, in the US system, the league is a monopoly, and holds all the individual player contracts. It's not the Galaxy that owns LD; it's the MLS.
Right now, that deadlock is ongoing--not a strike, but very tricky mediation. Here is the latest, as per SBI:
Major League Soccer and the MLS Players Union both confirmed on Friday afternoon that they have accepted the invitation of a mediator to try and resolve the deadlock currently being experienced in the negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
As part of the meetings, MLS and the Union have jointly accepted the invitation of George H. Cohen, the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), to serve as a mediator during the discussions.
MLS commissioner Don Garber has spoken recently about being optimistic that a labor deal will be completed before the scheduled start of the MLS season, but the move toward mediation shows just how deadlocked the sides had become. It does look like a positive step though that both sides have agreed to mediation.
