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Boohoo! Now do crew members.
Sounds like your union should team up with theirs.
Their union scrapes so much off the plate, there’s never anything left for us carnies. Us carnies have leadership that is beholden to banksters and I suspect an old Boys club. Last contract, most of the union got finger-wagged out of calling a strike.
The studios pulled all kinds of crazy shit. They went after the kid who had an Instagram that suddenly had us carnies in an uproar with 60,000 followers that had “iastories” about the hazards of our unusually long shifts (18 hour days), work conditions, pay, etc. When our leadership announced we would vote on a strike, suddenly iastories Instagram stopped allowing comments on their stories which were suddenly very pro-contract. It eventually came out that the studios had contacted the kid and convinced him that he might not want to ruin his career.
I'm going to stop you right there, what makes you think that? There is a lot of money in entertainment. Don't hate on the actors because they stick up for themselves, join and learn from them how to do it.
They're not demanding the crew members hand over their wages to actors, they're demanding the executives who take home tens of millions of dollars a year stop trying to ruthlessly fuck them out of every cent..
As a union film crew member, I get paid a tiny bit.
The actors get absurd perks.
Don’t get me started on what the PA’s get.
As a union member, I’m fighting for the actors and writers. Forgive me if I get a bit bitter after we (IATSE) absolutely folded on our last contract with streaming.
"Boo-hoo. Now do Amazon workers". Kind of makes it difficult to discuss doesn't it?
You can get as bitter as you want, just direct it at the people who pay you as little as possible so they can pocket more themselves, not people who are slightly less exploited than you are.
Agree with you, why be a crab in a bucket. You should support others trying to get up, not cry 'it should be me!'. Change takes time and everybody can't be helped at once. Also we need to tar and feather some greedy bastards
Great idea! If members of the working class fight amongst each other, it's a great way to get the people reaping the profits to listen.
You're directly serving the studios by acting like this. You could have said something like "This is awful, and the actors even do better than crew members, it goes all the way down." Instead you decided you should attack the other people who can't make rent.
It's not crew vs actor. It's the whole Hollywood working class vs executives who pander to Wall Street and VCs.