THE STRIKE 101 -- WHAT THEY ARE FIGHTING ABOUT — Page 2

Fosse,

I make a very good living. You keep on bring up about getting called in to change a lightbulb and you say I am illogical. I do have a problem with if one person needs to stay for overtime, everyone get paid. I do have a problem with it might take 10 day of carpentery then the others that worked 6 days all get paid for 10.

Also, to have to pay extra because someone has to do what they consider a duty outside their work duties is not the way it works in the non union working world. I do many tasks that I might consider outside my normal duties and do not get anything extra.

Updated On: 11/14/07 at 04:38 PM

Ah yes and guess who is double dipping here? Sillerman is Mel Brooks partner on Young Frankenstein. So he isn't losing much and damn if he isn't profiting from this strike!!

This boost YF slagging sales. I wonder how Roger Bart is doing these days? I hope he has great health insurance because he will surely need it in the future.

Just goes to show how some Americans do business in this Town. Why I'd swear Sillerman, the Waltons of Walmart fame and Perot are all just partying it up while the Actors, Tech have to walk the picket line.

This just makes me ill. Remembering all of those fancy pictures of Mel dancing around, the big Man of the day at the Opening and the prices they are charging.

People please make a serious note of this fact. Especially when you are choosing what shows you really want to support.

Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap...

I'm a little confused. If I work two eight hour days days loading in a show at a Nederlander theater, two eight hour days days at a Jujamcyn theater,and 40 hours at a Shubert theater, how much overtime do I get?

I'm curious about the "contracts" Local 1 guys have with the independent theaters that are NOT dark currently. What's the differential? It's seems when those shows close, it might be very difficult to find work in this town again...do they care? Is a non-union employee screwed forever?

I worded my Q incorrectly. The "non union" employees? I am in the IATSE (smaller Local) and was always very astounded how Disney, etc. (and others) got away with using non-union people. I feel my Local's Business Mgr. at the time did a crappy, pathetic job at trying to establish and negotiate union contracts for all those theaters. The union busting tactics started a Looooong time ago. What's your take?

> I'm a little confused. If I work two eight hour days days loading
> in a show at a Nederlander theater, two eight hour days days at a
> Jujamcyn theater,and 40 hours at a Shubert theater, how much
> overtime do I get?

OH! Such loaded questions! How about if the "show call" is actually a 4-hour call of 6:30-10:30 and then after wednesday or thursday your work triggers an FLSA violation with a two-year statute of limitations on claims?

http://www.google.com/search?q=FLSA&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

golly. nobody's talking about THAT, are they....

not yet, anyway.

" I do many tasks that I might consider outside my normal duties and do not get anything extra. "

-- i have to admit that REALLY un-nerved me as well.

I am a consultant by trade. And i CONSTANTLY do work that i was not assigned to do.

For example ... i was paid in June to go to NYC to teach a software class for a company. Well ... they didnt really want to do the "lab work" ... they'd rather me help them implement those examples in their code.

I explained to the guy ... hey i have x amount of things to present, with y amount of time for lab. However, if you want me to divert attention to something else, its your dime and go ahead. And so i did.