Coffee, naps and ethical work behavior

Coffee, naps and ethical work behavior



"I have long been an advocate for ethical workplace behavior, so today I call on my elected representatives, whoever they may be, to support an important new piece of legislation: the Caffeine and Naptime Workplace Ethics Bill of 2014.

This bill would help prevent unethical workplace behavior by requiring every company in America to provide workers with free coffee (fresh brewed, none of that instant garbage) and mandatory nap times (with "nap coaches" on hand to assist and, if necessary, sing lullabies)."

Labor Talks Begin at Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera opened labor talks on Tuesday with the Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the union that represents the stagehands who build, move and light the sets and props at the opera house.

The unions, who have seen the nature of their work change as the company has had to ensure that its sets, lighting and costumes are camera-ready for the Met’s “Live in HD” simulcasts to movie theaters around the world, argue that the company should seek savings elsewhere in a budget that has grown to more than $300 million a year, and suggested that the company had been mounting too many costly new productions each year.

Labor Talks Begin at Metropolitan Opera

You have the right to form a union. pic.twitter.com/noUBlrkUhg

— Resident Stagehand (@LORTstagehand) July 9, 2013

Check out @IATSEYWC's Tweet: https://twitter.com/IATSEYWC/status/368417011971276800

Unpaid Internships are class discrimination. http://t.co/Vcon7KQZi8

— Resident Stagehand (@LORTstagehand) August 14, 2013

Growing Stronger

Recently the news has been full of stories about how "unions are dying." However in the past 20 years the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees membership has grown by nearly 52%. Organized stagehands aren't dying. We're growing stronger.

Break Time!