a lot there to unpack and this is not the right place for most of it.
So I will just highlight one thing which is that I think the union issue in many of the troubling situations is in how the rewards of hard fought contracts are divvied up, and another is that in the theatre we have a lot of union members especially (but not only) in the creative segment who hideously exploit the people they have working for them. Much to ponder of course.