Broadway workers mad at 50% pay cut for doing not much work

[Saltwater60]

Ah liberals eating liberals, I like it. Revolt, keep revolting.

Broadway Unions Revolt Over Proposal to Halve Workers’ Pay During COVID ‘Pauses’

As the destructive sweep of Omicron leads to the closure and “pausing” of Broadway shows, a Broadway League proposal to cut workers’ pay by 50% has been roundly rejected by unions.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[tirwin1]

Well it's not like they can all go out and get jobs waiting tables.....

 

[livingston]

Always could "play" a nurses aid in a hospital

 

[That_FNG]

They should just learn to code.

 

[livingston]

They should just learn to code.

Hillary could teach them .....

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Starbucks in Buffalo looking for help......union shop too.

 

[Deplorable Me]

Let's go Brandon.

 

[SonOfSun]

Ah liberals eating liberals, I like it. Revolt, keep revolting.

Broadway Unions Revolt Over Proposal to Halve Workers’ Pay During COVID ‘Pauses’

As the destructive sweep of Omicron leads to the closure and “pausing” of Broadway shows, a Broadway League proposal to cut workers’ pay by 50% has been roundly rejected by unions.

www.thedailybeast.com

I fail to see the problem with this.

They have a contract. It doesn't stipulate reduced pay. A contract is a contract. You hold up your agreement. Period. If the showrunners had put that in the contract that's one thing, but the condition isn't there. You don't get to modify contracts after the fact unless both sides agree. Their lack of foresight is their issue. I say too bad, maybe they made a bad deal, but that's not an excuse not to pay up to what they agreed to in writing.

Side note, when I was a landlord my lease was about 28 pages long for this reason. I paid a lawer a sum to have it written. It covered basically every scenario (the building burning down, floods, premise uninhabitable, etc.), damage fees for 50+ things, parking assignments, pet permitting, etc.

Any halfway decent contract for labor should include wage expectations for salaried workers if the business is inoperable. Sounds like they're about to learn a costly lesson in why you pay a proper legal team for this type of work.

 

[GOPerfect]

From the articel, it looks like both sides are being serious douche bags and neither side is following the contract.

 

[tgenec86]

The Companies and the Actors are at each others throats - while glossing over that absolute fact that the Government shut the country down and continues to strong-arm "mandates" that critically damage the ability of patrons to attend shows and severely restrict the business that the stages are allowed to do. Every single decent attorney in this country should be suing the shit out of the Government. Instead, companies and employees turn on each other and add to the destruction as it has been intended from the beginning. MORONIC (Omicron spelled correctly) is a bad cold or moderate case of the flu that in less than six months 80% of the entire population of the USA is likely going to encounter, and it's going to eventually be the 5th major recognized flu virus that will stay with us for the foreseeable future. Any company being shut down for MORONIC is being raped by the Government and in general, the sheep are too stupid, fearful, complacent, cowed, and apathetic to do anything about it so it just goes on and on and on. And as far as Broadway - a theater that has no revenue forced to pay full contractual wages to actors not performing is going to go bankrupt, then there won't be a stage to act on. The Government shits money like an elephant with the trots, but that doesn't happen with little corporations. They play this too far, they won't have jobs to get paid from. Sucks, but again - Big Gov has decimated their way of life and just gets a pass. It's a travesty.

 

[GOYABEAN]

 

[spat]

The Companies and the Actors are at each others throats - while glossing over that absolute fact that the Government shut the country down and continues to strong-arm "mandates" that critically damage the ability of patrons to attend shows and severely restrict the business that the stages are allowed to do. Every single decent attorney in this country should be suing the shit out of the Government. Instead, companies and employees turn on each other and add to the destruction as it has been intended from the beginning. MORONIC (Omicron spelled correctly) is a bad cold or moderate case of the flu that in less than six months 80% of the entire population of the USA is likely going to encounter, and it's going to eventually be the 5th major recognized flu virus that will stay with us for the foreseeable future. Any company being shut down for MORONIC is being raped by the Government and in general, the sheep are too stupid, fearful, complacent, cowed, and apathetic to do anything about it so it just goes on and on and on. And as far as Broadway - a theater that has no revenue forced to pay full contractual wages to actors not performing is going to go bankrupt, then there won't be a stage to act on. The Government shits money like an elephant with the trots, but that doesn't happen with little corporations. They play this too far, they won't have jobs to get paid from. Sucks, but again - Big Gov has decimated their way of life and just gets a pass. It's a travesty.

Governments have a habit of granting themselves immunity to such suits.

 

[Grimscale]

Governments have a habit of granting themselves immunity to such suits.

Which immediately should raise red flags, and immediately invalidate such immunity.

 

[Saltwater60]

I get it I do, but if they keep paying large sums of money without bringing any in maybe there will be no broadway. I don’t care I wouldn’t go to a show for any less than them paying me a grand. Yes them paying me. I’m not interested in this bullshit.

 

[fresch]

Where's Hamilton when you need him!

 

[Saltwater60]

Where's Hamilton when you need him!

The black one or white one?

 

[spat]

Where's Hamilton when you need him!

Spinning in his grave no doubt.

 

[fresch]

The one that would work and have an idea that lasted a couple hundred years.

 

[Apeman]

"As the destructive sweep of Omicron leads to the closure and “pausing” of Broadway shows"

They're shutting things down because of a common cold. If they cut the bullshit and left everything open we wouldn't even be having this conversation