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2010-12-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Betcha can't guess how much the average stagehand at NYC's Lincoln Center makes each year?

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Posted by gorb 2010-12-28 00:54|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 And next time someone tells you unions are just about fair wages for an honest day's labor, remember that's not always the case. All too often they're about power and greed. This is also true for public sector unions

Don't forget to include US "professional" sports teams (making gazillions per year) and their dem voting player cydicates, who perform in massive coliseums built by taxpayers.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-12-28 04:51|| 2010-12-28 04:51|| Front Page Top

#2 The strongarm Union world meets the Arts world.
Guess who wins?

Posted by tu3031 2010-12-28 11:33|| 2010-12-28 11:33|| Front Page Top

#3 A partial list of public funding:

National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
US Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Education
US Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

Posted by DepotGuy 2010-12-28 12:06|| 2010-12-28 12:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Pro athletes are the how and why of their jobs. It is right that they make so much money. What, the franchise owners, people who contribute nothing, should make it instead?

Posted by gromky 2010-12-28 12:26|| 2010-12-28 12:26|| Front Page Top

#5 [cough, cough, cough wwheeeze...]

Damn, I guessed 120k and thought I was being conservative. What? How can they possibly afford to pay them that?

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-12-28 12:40|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-12-28 12:40|| Front Page Top

#6 It gets better.

Most, if not all, Broadway productions use canned music. However (this was a few years back), you would still see a few musicians behind the stage at each show and drawing a paycheck for sitting around, courtesy of their union.

Posted by Pappy 2010-12-28 13:00|| 2010-12-28 13:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Read the comments. Some guy was saying that they work 100/hrs a week (meaning the union contract probably forbids hiring more workers so they get paid overtime and double-overtime for standing around).

Heck I am de-facto on-call 24/7/365 for some of my applications - so I guess I work 336 Hours a week.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-12-28 13:11|| 2010-12-28 13:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah, but around that area doesn't a 100k salary get you a crappy 1 bedroom apartment and just enough food to keep you from starving?

Posted by DarthVader 2010-12-28 15:18|| 2010-12-28 15:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Makes the guys sitting around in the General Motors Labor Pool appear to be underpaid.

Posted by airandee 2010-12-28 15:50|| 2010-12-28 15:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Yeah, but around that area doesn't a 100k salary get you a crappy 1 bedroom apartment and just enough food to keep you from starving?

If you're working 100 hrs/wk, you don't need more than that.

Posted by gorb 2010-12-28 17:08|| 2010-12-28 17:08|| Front Page Top

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