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re: STRIKE TOMORROW#175
Posted: 11/10/07 at 10:27pmAs irked as I am that I'm not sitting and watching Cyrano right now, I fully understand the Union's point of view and support them.
re: STRIKE TOMORROW#176
Posted: 11/10/07 at 10:28pmGlad to hear you are not outside anymore LOCAL1. Please enlighten some of these idiots on this board who are completely ignorant of what it means to be a Stage Hand
Chorus Member Joined: 7/18/07
re: STRIKE TOMORROW#178
Posted: 11/10/07 at 11:30pm
localone-i have personally seen crew members show up to work, sign in and then leave the theater so perhaps you have had blinders on over the past years while working. I have also seen guys work their half hour shift then go across the street to grab a drink at the local bar. most don't do this, but some do. Refute that!
re: STRIKE TOMORROW#179
Posted: 11/10/07 at 11:43pm
No one here will refute that.
I've seen actors do the same thing. There are bus drivers, Doctors, air traffic controllers, baseball players, taxidermists, and street cleaners all shirking their responsibilities as individuals. My point is that no one expects that all members of any profession are all responsible people. The majority are, but not all.
re: STRIKE TOMORROW#180
Posted: 11/10/07 at 11:56pm
> just back from the picket line.
ditto
> 1. i have never , in my twenty years as a union stagehand, seen
> a stagehand get paid to do nothing. the only time we stand
ditto. But about 26 years in my case. unless I'm mis-counting.
> 2. we were told to expect 2-3 weeks but to not be surprised if > we were still standing out there at christmas.
ditto, and as I viewed the league press conference footage featuring herschel waxman and richard frankel, both people I know and who claim to respect their employees, but clearly do not, I fear it will be christmas or new years or even longer.
> 3. we feel bad for ticket holders, we really do, but its
I really feel badly for the ticket holders. Honestly. It absolutely kills me to disappoint any theatre-goer, let alone a child.
> 4. we walked because the league refused to negotiate. sitting
> at the table and dictating to us a set of never changing terms
> is not a negotiation.
and this is absolutely correct. the League's people told us a year ago "you might as well take your strike vote now". That's before we officially started negotiating. They have been negotiating in bad faith, and continue to try to negotiate in the press. This won't be worked out in the press. It has to be worked out at the table, in an honest manner. But what is now clear now is that the people on their side of the table are not honest, honorable people. Get your pocketbooks ready, when a deal DOES come, they are going to immediately raise your ticket prices by 10% or 15% and blame it on "increased stagehand costs" while giving us a 3% raise. What's that additional 7% to 12%? Service charge? I'd be interested to see just how much the posters on this board spend, on an annual basis, on "restoration fees".
as an aside: I would like to thank the overwhelming majority of new yorkers AND tourists who stopped to show their support to the union members on the line today. We even had tourists who had come to see our show JOIN OUR LINE and walk with us in solidarity , in one case of 3 great ladies from out west for an entire hour! That cancels out any anti-union venom I've read here.
Updated On: 11/10/07 at 11:56 PM
re: STRIKE TOMORROW#181
Posted: 11/11/07 at 12:05amStand tall bugmenot! AEA stands behind you!
re: STRIKE TOMORROW#182
Posted: 11/11/07 at 12:05amI work for Actors' Equity and I know EXACTLY why they went on strike and it won't be resolved anytime soon. Both sides are greedy, which is sad for EVERYONE that has bought a ticket to see any broadway show, let alone planning a whole trip around it. Local One SHOULD be ashamed of themselves. This is whole thing is disgusting.
Leading Actor Joined: 1/24/07
re: STRIKE TOMORROW#183
Posted: 11/11/07 at 12:07am
People should be ashamed to fight (of course not literally speaking) for what they want?
Updated On: 11/11/07 at 12:07 AM
Broadway Star Joined: 8/31/03
re: STRIKE TOMORROW#184
Posted: 11/11/07 at 7:04pm
bway stud is another example of anti-stagehand posting from members that joined after10/07. i am not saying that all the anti-union posts are from people who joined after that date, just most.
very curious......
welcome to the propaganda machine that is the league.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/03
re: STRIKE TOMORROW#185
Posted: 11/11/07 at 7:10pmHe can't even keep his post straight. In one post he writes that he works for AEA, and in another thread he writes that his boyfriend works for AEA. The League needs to give their shills a script.
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