| re: MET OPERA Union says opera season may not happen unless management reinstates workers and acts fairly | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 06:24 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 - ryhog 03:48 pm EST 02/21/21 | |
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| Based on which union we're looking at, I think we can still be talking low paid, exploited individuals - that's certainly a large part of the messaging behind We See You White American Theater - we're just negotiating the degree to which one is being exploited and underpaid. As someone who is not part of any of these unions, I often find myself in a similar boat financially to colleagues who are in creative unions. The larger issue, of course, is one that is endemic to our version of Capitalism: it is mistaking the value of a company for the value of the person that runs that company. So we look at the budget of a theater, and some folks, rather than ask how that money is being spent to support the livelihood of thousands of people, instead ask how much of that money can go to a select few earners, and how little can be paid to the rest, in order to fund those select few earners, (who are also generally the ones who are making these decisions in the first place. And then, when things get tight, the folks who have been earning that money ask how those who are already suffering can suffer further, offering inspirational bromides of how we're all sacrificing for our art... but some folks are making that sacrifice in a rent-free Manhattan penthouse, and others are making that sacrifice by eating ramen in the outer boroughs. I appreciate how much Gelb works to keep The Met prosperous, but his job only exists because of everybody else who is working in that institution. We might say Gelb is underpaid, but everyone is underpaid; the question is how much more underpaid some folks are compared to others, and whether the performing arts can exist without that system. Some days most days, I think that boat has sailed. |
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