“Matt Damon has revealed that the “Oppenheimer” cast talked about their strike strategy before hitting the movie’s red carpet premiere in London on Thursday.
Damon added: “We gave the strike authorization. We voted 98% to 2% to do that because we know our leadership has our best interest at heart.”
“It’s really about working actors,” he continued. “It’s $26,000 to qualify for health coverage and a lot of people are on the margins and residual payments are getting them across that threshold. This isn’t an academic exercise. This is real life and death stuff. Hopefully we get to a resolution quickly. No one wants a work stoppage, but we’ve got to get a fair deal.”
UPS has reached an agreement with the Teamsters union to equip its iconic brown delivery trucks with air conditioning for the first time for new units.
The agreement, announced by UPS on Tuesday, comes as the delivery giant and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters negotiate the terms of a new contract for more than 330,000 U.S. employees. (source)
Unions work, unionize.
I learned something interesting from one of our delivery/secure document disposal people! He pointed out that one reason they weren’t installing AC by choice is because delivery drivers may be tempted to rest in the car between deliveries on hot days. Since the car is hot and uncomfortable to be in, it keeps the driver moving. Horrifying dystopic bullshit.
The moral is (again) (unsurprisingly): capitalism will eat you alive and not even be sorry for it, because the profit margins were right.
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