| re: MET OPERA Union says opera season may not happen unless management reinstates workers and acts fairly | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 01:37 pm EST 02/21/21 | |
| In reply to: re: MET OPERA Union says opera season may not happen unless management reinstates workers and acts fairly - NewtonUK 12:55 pm EST 02/21/21 | |
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| All of these institutions have been able to survive this long by paying most of their labor force minimum wage or less, while working them for as few weeks a year as they can. Lynne and Barry make $600,000 a year (which means a combined $1.2 million) while relying upon an army of unpaid and low-paid interns and part-time staff, and an administrative and creative staff that is lucky if they make $60K a year, to live in New York, but at least those folks have health insurance. Many of these workers are asked to put in 6 - 7 days a week, and if they not exempt, the nature of overtime compensation is factored into their starting salary such that they are not being paid commensurate with the additional hours they are working. And after years of doing this, now the leaders of these non-profits are asking workers who were barely surviving as it was to take additional pay cuts so that we can "be in this together". Well, we weren't in this together when they were making 20 times what their lowest paid workers were making (and, again, lots of unpaid workers as well), and we weren't in this when they were telling us that we should be grateful to have jobs at all, so why ask for such frivolities as a weekend. But when they need to make even deeper pay cuts, suddenly we're all in this together. |
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