Two Actor Unions Ban Their Members from Working on Tyler Perry's Latest Stage Production

[Omaha Steve]

In LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141173124

[katmondoo]

1. Why do you always have 3 posts at the same time on same subject????

[Omaha Steve]

2. I used to mark them as x (cross) post

There are many DUers that don't read the relevant forums. I didn't post this to GD. I did post it in LBN, here, Labor, and Socialist-Progressive. Many DUers don't see it without a X post when it's in just 1 forum or group they don't read.

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[qwlauren35]

3. I'll bite.

Cross posting from LBN





I spent a few minutes googling Perry's record with unions. It's pretty bad. In fact, it appears that working for him is a nightmare. But it's so creative and such a career jumpstart that people put up with it. Maybe that's what it's meant to be - the McDonald's of the entertainment world. A good starting place to get experience and a foot in the door, but not a place to stay and build a career.

I am sad to think that Perry does not offer health care or profit sharing, although I'm not sure how he would get around Obamacare. Hurray for Obamacare...

Interestingly enough, I have heard that Oprah's track record is equally dismal on unions.

And find myself wondering whether unions are a "black thing". Other than teachers' unions, I don't think I've known anyone in a union. When it comes to protection, I see black people going to the NAACP or EEO. But not unions. Perhaps if they were in unions, the NAACP and EEO would not come into play.

Just thoughts.

[Omaha Steve]

4. I know lots of people of color in unions

Edit: I forgot to mention the Post Office. My granddaughter's other grandfather is a US Postal Clerk!

Add a link to that post please.

( Ask me sometime how the first black appointed to the NLRB under Kennedy, HOWARD JENKINS, JR saved my butt in my NLRB case.

http://www.law.du.edu/jenkins/table.htm )


Just here in Omaha. And not just garbage men or women. Bus drivers, city workers, Grain Millers (Kellogg's cereal), all the construction trades, police, fire, stage crew at Century link Center, UP and BNSF railroads, truck drivers, the phone company, etc....

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Organizing-Bargaining/Black-Workers-19-More-Likely-to-Be-in-Unions

Black Workers 19% More Likely to Be in Unions



"The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.”

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said that in 1965, and African Americans still hear his quote ring.

A new report, Blacks in Unions: 2012, by the University of California, Berkeley, Center for Labor Research and Education, finds that black workers are 19% more likely to be in unions than non-black workers. In the nation’s 10 largest metropolitan areas, African Americans are 42% more likely than non-blacks to be in unions.

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There’s a pretty good reason for this. Unions make a difference in the lives of black workers—in cold, hard cash terms, it amounts to $185 a week in median weekly earnings, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Overall, union members also are more likely than nonunion workers to have health care coverage from their employers and good pensions.

FULL story at link.

[Omaha Steve]

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