The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE, or "the stagehands’ union") is mounting protests outside movie theaters in 13 cities — including the Century 16 — to call attention to a dispute the union is having with the Metropolitan Opera (which is streaming its production of "The Enchanted Island" in theaters tonight).
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This is what the world has come to, this is what we fight for every day. Even though some things happen for a reason no person that is promised something should that promise be taken away. With the dispute in the union I think it is perfectly fine that they are protesting and leaving their jobs at this theater. I think it isn’t unheard of. If the labor they are put through or the overtime they put in is going unrecognized and they aren’t being paid they should rally and get attention to get the story out of what is going on. That is all they are doing is trying to make people aware what this union and maybe a lot of other unions are going through. This is saying that they are getting reduce pay and benefits for unionized members. With the reducing pay the executives are keeping it and putting it in their pockets. I think this is wrong and I know people get annoyed with unions but this is was unions are about they are about that no one gets left behind when something goes wrong.
Lyla Bartman
This is a perfect example of what a company fears and what a union craves. People may try their best to fight against the union, to discount their opinions, but in the end it’s obvious who is going to win. IASTE has been making changes in the industry like this since 1893, and now is no time for them to stop. This is how things get done in a union and have been for over a century. Unions may get a bad rap for their methods of getting a point across, specifically through protest, but in the end, a union has no ulterior motives. The point of a union is to speak up for those without voices in an industry, and to demand only what is fair to both the corporation as well as the workforce. People need to recognize that despite their reputation, a union is the personification of brotherhood in an industry: something that all successful industry needs.
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