Members JackPeyton Posted June 6, 2013 Author Members Share Posted June 6, 2013 Right. It should just let them be lowballed. And when production decides to pay the, even less, hey, why not? Hell, $1 an hour is better than none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ReddFoxx Posted June 6, 2013 Members Share Posted June 6, 2013 As for the notion of moving, Prospect Park shouldn't seriously consider that, since most states that are used for filming are unionized. Most of the right to work states are below the Mason-Dixon line or in the Plains or Mountains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members DRW50 Posted June 6, 2013 Members Share Posted June 6, 2013 I swear they're doing all this just so I will be caught up in episodes. It's very kind of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JackPeyton Posted June 6, 2013 Author Members Share Posted June 6, 2013 That movie was so effing strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted June 6, 2013 Members Share Posted June 6, 2013 That's how I try to look at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dale Posted June 6, 2013 Members Share Posted June 6, 2013 I hear North Dakota is lovely in the fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members cassadine1991 Posted June 6, 2013 Members Share Posted June 6, 2013 more news http://michaelfairmansoaps.com/news/amidst-labor-dispute-amc-oltl-writers-have-been-told-to-keep-writing/2013/06/05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members greens_dupres Posted June 6, 2013 Members Share Posted June 6, 2013 Vee you've talked me off the ledge. Thank you for all your rationalness in this thread. With AMC, I can totally think logically and have a business head but when it comes to OLTL, I revert to the first grader who was so excited to get strep throat every winter so that I could get a full week of Todd Manning and Dorian. I don't think they want to leave Stamford. I think they're puffing that at the union. I think this actually could be resolved if (and huge IF) PP takes the initiative, stops leaking things/talking and enters productive talks with the union. I don't think the union is looking to shut down production and lost the jobs permanently (but the week/ten day shut down is probably fine with them) and I don't think PP wants to throw in the towel yet so I'm moderately hopeful. I look forward to how Cady mcClain attempts to shepherd us through this one. This is all my fault. I was the one who posted last week that we got through a week without any PP craziness. Well I will never try to be Prospect Park Pollyanna again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted June 6, 2013 Members Share Posted June 6, 2013 I'll believe it when it's settled and not before. You can't take your eyes off these people for a minute. I long for the dream of a day where we can look back on all this in a year or two and laugh at the ridiculous mess. I have absolutely no expectation that that will happen, but it's a nice dream. I am not saying it's a done deal and everything's going to be fine, because I don't have any assurance of that. I think it can be fine, but I suspect the question is if PP is willing to step up to their part of the problem. Which is no guarantee of anything. I hope so, though. And whatever happens, I've gotten a lot more than I expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChitHappens Posted June 6, 2013 Members Share Posted June 6, 2013 I really hate clicking on his page. MF is such a gross little man, and to have all those pictures of himself on the opening page? Ugh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted June 6, 2013 Members Share Posted June 6, 2013 Oh, Chit, this is the soap press, all these people have all been gross little men and women for going on 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jo.frank88 Posted June 6, 2013 Members Share Posted June 6, 2013 *eye roll* Please PP get this together by August so things can roll smoothly from here on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members quartermainefan Posted June 6, 2013 Members Share Posted June 6, 2013 Except the wages all those people are earning a lot higher than $1 an hour. They are undertaking a new endeavor where there is no proven path to turning a profit. The unions can work against its own member and try to bleed the production dry (as all the entertainment unions do) or they can give these people a chance to perhaps to find the way to quality professional content online when your name is not netflix. I don't know the current minimum wages for grips and lighting people in this union, but I can tell you about the bullshit Broadway union where the show is forced to hire a lighting guy, and the theater is forced to hire a lighting guy and all the theater's lighting guy has to do is come in and turn on the lights so the show's lighting guy can take over. For that he is paid a full union salary and as the guy I knew who had that job, he would then leave the theater and go work a second job at another show. But he was paid for a full shift as per union requirements. We can cling to utopian ideals where the unions are fighting for the little guy against the evil magnates of 1910 but that isn't the situation here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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