The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees is at loggerheads with companies like Netflix, Disney and Amazon over streaming pay and long work days. :lets-fucking-go: :specter:
How many Iatse members are there?
140,000
:lets-fucking-go: :sabo:
Tension has been simmering between crews and studios for a long time, with crews — Hollywood’s equivalent of blue-collar workers — feeling overlooked and underappreciated, especially as deep-pocketed tech companies like Apple and Amazon have colonized the entertainment industry. Anger started to boil over in the summer, when an IATSE member, Ben Gottlieb, a young lighting technician, started an Instagram page dedicated to work-related horror stories.
:fidel-salute: Ben Gottlieb understands how to organize and agitate! every one of us should start a similar instagram account for whatever industry we are in. it's a genius idea.
I'm really excited about the Amazon ones. If someone successfully strikes against them, a whole lot more groups of people that should be striking are gonna get in on it.
Wait, there's a lot of strikes going on... is this general strike actually happening?
