• snoons@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    Was working with IATSE setting up a stage for some band. The road crew forgot about us and we missed all our breaks over about three hours (starting almost immediately with our lunch break). There were four union workers just standing there having there contracts broken with ineptitude. We were all payed ~$900 each for watching other people work for three hours. Like, by the end of the third our I think we were getting quadruple time or something.

    Unions are fucking awesome. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a de facto supporter of slavery, with extra steps.