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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.