| re: Well... you still shouldn't believe it. | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 10:17 am EDT 03/27/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Well... you still shouldn't believe it. - Singapore/Fling 08:40 pm EDT 03/26/21 | |
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| What Showgoer wrote was: "Look no farther than the headlines from the last 48 hours about Actors Equity members reacting in shock and outrage to new demands from their leadership that to reopen Broadway every one of their actors would require private car service to and from the theater, and special air purifiers in dressing rooms or in housing at regional theaters. AEA already seems to be backtracking a bit, even before it gets to the negotiation stage with anyone else, holding town halls to hear their member's concerns and complaints. But suffice to say, if any other unions, such as the stagehands and musicians, use the one-year shutdown as an excuse to insist on similar things, it's not an exaggeration to say......theater would simply never re-open.....Theater workers simply can't be seen (and, I would think, wouldn't WANT to be seen) as having more pandemic perks added to their contracts than, say, frontline workers and airline employees." In my opinion, these are eminently reasonable comments, based on a factual report of the AEA membership's response to the union's demands re COVID. I do agree that he probably shouldn't have lumped together the private car service and the air purifiers, at least not without getting into the union's specific demands in regard to the air purifiers and whether or not those demands would be considered reasonable. Still, to read these comments and focus on the part about the air purifiers indicates a lack of reading comprehension, in my opinion, because I think it's clear that the poster was commenting more generally about AEA's demands. At any rate, since it was unclear exactly what the poster was referring to as "pandemic perks," labeling the post as "vile" was highly inappropriate, as many of us seem to agree. Bottom line: Since the AEA membership itself has found at least some of the union's demands re reopening Broadway so outrageous that they have gone to the extraordinary step of demanding a virtual town hall meeting on this subject, calling out an ATC poster as "vile" for also having a strongly negative reaction to those demands seems all the more inappropriate. |
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