Bitter Gertrude: There’s been an interesting development in the small theatre/AEA controversy in LA. Actors have banded together to sue their own union.
Part of the complaint is that the union ignored the will of its members when members voted down, by a 2-to-1 margin, AEA’s proposed changes to the 99-and-under code. To be fair, AEA signaled from the start they were going to do exactly that if the LA membership voted against them by telling them before the vote that it was “non-binding.” It doesn’t get clearer than that that a union has no interest in members’ opinions.
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It is pretty obvious that a union is failing its workers if the workers themselves are suing the union. I don’t quite understand what unions do nowadays, because they just don’t seem successful in anything. They have such a lack in funding that their once noble job is now a symbol of a past era still trying to hold onto a rope which is slowly fraying away into nothingness. Lobbying has also caused corruption in unions where money is more important than helping people find employment and stay employed. Unions where once the workforce which protected the common man but what do they do now? Relatively nothing, or at least I haven’t seen a union do much of anything in the past few years. I have a theory that our governmental structure should be completely demolished and rebuilt in order to reduce corruption and money greedy people from being in power. It was put into the Constitution that if our government was no longer functioning, we the people have the right to say that we need a new one. The only problem with my idea is that it is no longer the1700s where we could easily overthrow a government.
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