Friends of DeSoto for Labor
If you’re a fan of Star Trek, we hope you’ll join us in standing in solidarity with the workers who actually bring these adventures to life. Without the effort of thousands of laborers, our podcast would have nothing to review!
Over the past several years, the AMPTP, the organization that represents the American television and film production studios, have reduced the profit from movies and TV going to the workers, and in so doing has attempted to weaken the labor unions that represent those workers. They wouldn’t even engage the unions on many issues in their negotiations, and so a strike was the only course of action to take.
Today, Greatest Trek is making a contribution to the Entertainment Community Fund. This is a fund that exists to help all the people whose livelihoods have been put on hold because the AMPTP refuses to negotiate in good faith with the unions. This fund is to provide financial support for writers, actors, and all the thousands of laborers who record the sound, build the sets, make the props, right the lighting, work the cameras etc. Those folks are all out of work now because billionaires, company shareholders, and the executives of these companies that serve them, don’t want to compromise on the length of their yachts.
We hope you’ll join us in supporting these workers in a challenging time, especially after they’ve already endured several years of challenges brought on by the pandemic and Season 2 of Star Trek Picard.
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