Newly unionized cast members are on strike at the Buena Vista location of Medieval Times this week.
Newly unionized cast members are on strike at the Buena Vista location of Medieval Times this week, calling for increased wages, better workplace conditions and less of what multiple cast members believe to be hostile responses from management at the world-famous dinner-theater chain.
and an October lawsuit that alleged trademark infringement on the union’s part. In December the Buena Vista performers — who The refusal to acknowledge trumpet players — a role that pays $16 hourly — is especially galling to the union’s organizers. Lizbeth Figueroa has been playing for eight years and currently makes just above minimum wage. “They can’t really pick anyone off the street to do my job,” she said. “I don’t think the company sees that. They make it seem as though we’re replaceable when we’re really not.”
“It’s $18.50 to just jump off a moving horse that goes up to like 20, 30 miles an hour,” Wojcik said. “Something like this especially should have union protections. You get hurt.” Wojcik says that everyone he knows who’s gone to perform in the arena, or “in the sand,” has been injured in some way. “I really enjoy the people who I work with but I also really need it to be safer,” he said. “It’s not just wages in general right now — we’re really striking for the unfair labor practices.… When I was hurt with my [knee] injury, I wasn’t really helped out much. I had just come from a dishwashing job, and I’m just like, ‘I don’t understand anything about getting injured.
Trumpeters such as Lizbeth Figueroa are included in the union; during the strike, the Buena Park Medieval Times is not employing trumpeters, relying solely on prerecorded music tracks during its shows.
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