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DROP THE CURTAIN ON LABOR ABUSE AT UC BERKELEY

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Toni Mendicino
10 years ago

This labor exploitation at a public institution is disgraceful.

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Tanya Smith
10 years ago Featured

If UC management can bring world class shows to Cal Performances, they can also provide fair pay and working conditions to the back stage workers who make the shows possible.

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Harry konstantopoulos
10 years ago

Over time after 8 is only fair compensation.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

This is not acceptable. UC should adhere to decent working conditions. Shame on you!

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kathryn kowalewski
10 years ago Featured

Meanwhile, Matias Tarnopolsky, head of Cal Performances, has doubled his salary since being hired in 2009 making more than governor Jerry Brown and claims to be ignorant of the plight of these hard working stagehands! Really Mr. Tarnopolsky?

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Teresa Smith
10 years ago

Shame on UCB, Cal Performances and the Zellerbach family name.

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Emily Montan
10 years ago

Management should spread the wealth from the stage hands all the way to the performers. Instead, they pocket the profits and grants.

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Todd Kolze
10 years ago Featured

It is a serious injustice that UC stagehands aren't being paid overtime even after working three 12 hour shifts in a row! Also, Cal Performances needs to support the professionalism of the people who work for it and the quality of it's productions with a reasonable number of permanent career positions

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Anonymous
10 years ago

I am in solidarity with the Cal Performance stage hands!! Comply with labor laws and restore their permanent positions now!!

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Jay Wojnarowski
10 years ago

No justice. No peace. Treat your workers fairly.

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Ron Greene
10 years ago

This abuse is happening system wide. It's no different here on the UCLA campus. It must be stopped!

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Jeff Otter
10 years ago

Let's treat our workers humanely. Now. What a shame. Solidarity.

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Grace Lin
10 years ago

Just because you're a public university doesn't mean you're exempt from treating your workers ethically.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

We all know they deserve better.

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Lisa Kermish
10 years ago

Shameful. Stop abusing workers!

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Morgan Quirk
10 years ago

solidarity

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Eric Lindberg
10 years ago

Everyone deserves a fair workplace. UC Davis needs to be more worker friendly and that starts with the Stagehands!

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John Shaban
10 years ago

Shame on the UC for adding to the abusive culture crushing the middle class in this country. Shame on you for feathering your own nests at the expense of workers. Shame.

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Joaquin Chavez
10 years ago Featured

The abuse of the stagehands at Cal Performances is staggering, treating dedicated and long-serving workers as disposable cogs in a money-drenched machine. The rakeoff charged to visiting companies for labor hours is absolutely staggering, far higher than any hiring hall charges for a unionized worker with full benefits in other industries. It's an insult and it has to be stopped.

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Matt Welch
10 years ago Featured

I worked there long ago and it was exactly the same as it now. And tuition now is out-of-hand.