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Thursday, February 15, 2018
HBO Sued for Alleged Retaliation Against Parking Assistants
Variety: A group of 42 parking production assistants sued HBO on Wednesday, alleging they were not hired back on later seasons of “Girls” after suing to demand better pay and working conditions.
I feel as though I’m constantly reading one article where I compliment the performance industry on one thing and then two articles later I’m reading about something that makes the performance world sound really bad. This is one of those cases. We are individuals who want diversity in theater and television, we are individuals who want equal pay, we are individuals who love doing what we do, but to decline the rights to workers that complain about the bad conditions of the workforce is simply unacceptable. We’re supposed to be an open community, a community that listens, and when we stop listening, is when we get sued. I’m really glad I found this article because now I definitely look at HBO differently, and I wish cases like these would be more popularized because television industries that make so much money off of almost every single show, shouldn’t have horrible working conditions and shouldn’t be paying their workers less than minimum wage. Period.
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I feel as though I’m constantly reading one article where I compliment the performance industry on one thing and then two articles later I’m reading about something that makes the performance world sound really bad. This is one of those cases. We are individuals who want diversity in theater and television, we are individuals who want equal pay, we are individuals who love doing what we do, but to decline the rights to workers that complain about the bad conditions of the workforce is simply unacceptable. We’re supposed to be an open community, a community that listens, and when we stop listening, is when we get sued. I’m really glad I found this article because now I definitely look at HBO differently, and I wish cases like these would be more popularized because television industries that make so much money off of almost every single show, shouldn’t have horrible working conditions and shouldn’t be paying their workers less than minimum wage. Period.
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