Orange Show response to stagehands strike
Here's the National Orange Show Events Center's statement on the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees decision to strike. The local chapter of the IATSE decided to picket last Friday and Saturday, and the union says the crux of their disagreement is that stagehands have worked without a contract since 2006.
The statement:
"The management of the National Orange Show has always been ready, willing and available to meet with the IATSE union in good faith. There are legitimate and honest differences of opinion between both parties, which should be resolved at the bargaining table, not on a picket line.
"The strike and picketing this past weekend was an obvious attempt on the part of IATSE to intimidate those in attendance at holiday charitable events held on the grounds of the National Orange Show. It is unfortunate that IATSE has chosen this unwarranted method of protest, rather than meeting with the National Orange Show managment.
"The National Orange Show has not prohibited IATSE crews from working on the National Orange Show grounds. Indeed, IATSE crews were working on the grounds last Friday and Saturday.
"To our patrons, we regret any inconvenience this has caused, or may cause."
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Only in AMERICA! When unemployment in our Country, State, County, and City is at record high, when families are being forced to move from their homes with no where to go, you are now hearing a band of mental giants going on strike, refusing to work! Instead of being thankful they have a job and willing to make necessary concessions…doing whatever it takes to keep your job these fools are striking?
Well, how quickly the public has forgotten how the late President Reagan handled the air traffic controllers strike. He fired them all and replaced them with folks who wanted a job. If you are bold enough to go on strike, great, just please clean out your locker before you go as you will be replaced PDQ with someone in line at the EDD office. There are thousands of sane people who are hungry and willing to work out there. Strikers can and should be replaced. It is absurd to be so greedy as to strike during the worst of times. If you are not any smarter than that…you don’t need to work for anyone.