Andrew Sage
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Well, we keep using that one meme over and over.
Like, we're trying to balance the budget.
Because our management is so infuriating, and they also, in the years since we've been bargaining, had an interim director and spent most of his tenure searching for an executive director to take over.
That person is being paid $160,000 a year, to our knowledge.
And that's the offer that we know of.
We have yet to get his contract, even though we did make a formal information request for it.
yeah which is fucked and it's also like yeah like every time these companies are like oh we don't have money and it's like okay i i can find like an unbelievable amount of money that you have given to someone to like to give a random non-specific example that has nothing to do with with with any company that is in any way related to this show um alive or dead
Yeah, they have enough money to make your lives miserable, but they apparently never have enough money to, you know, like, make your lives not miserable because they have to spend that money on making your lives miserable.
And it's so intentional because making us miserable means that they are wearing down the number of people that they have to deal with and making the people who are left so tired and so frustrated and so much less capable of fighting them.
The classification of seasonal workers and particularly of event runners has been a point of contention throughout negotiations this whole time, because obviously from our perspective, we want anyone who's working in the store in any capacity to
to be involved in the union we want them to not have this random scab force that they can deploy at will yeah and that has always been the point that gets revisited over and over again just when we think we've gotten them locked into being union members they'll come back with their latest counter that's like actually i think because of x y and z that we just changed they're no longer eligible to join your union yep
Um, but they did just hire, I think three people that they were training at 57th street last week, but they've made no formal announcements to anyone that these people have been hired.