Our Summer 1999
Talking Union
series begins with . . . BC Premier Glen Clark &
Projectionists Update
working TV #148, RT: 27:30,
first broadcast August 06 1999
Talking Union: The first of a month of programs featuring speakers taped at the 1999 Hospital Employees' Union Summer School, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. This week and next we feature embattled B.C. Premier Glen Clark, among friends with unionzed Hospital workers.
| BC Premier Glen Clark Talking Union at the 1999 Hospital Employees Union Summer School, in the Student Union Building, University of British Columbia |  |
 | Hospital workers responded enthusiastically to Premier Clark. |
Projectionists Update:
This week we report on the July 27 mass rally outside the Capital 6 and Granville 7 cinemas in downtown Vancouver. Several hundred unionists, students and community supporters turned out to help the projectionists "fight corporate greed".
 | Though pickets were 5 deep in front of cinema doors, some movie patrons crossed the line anyway. When the same people returned to cross 2 and even 3 times picketers became suspicious. |
| These suspicions were confirmed when Vancouver Island unionists, after seeing images on TV news, recognized these individuals as paid strikebreakers who had worked against unions on the Island. |  |
The workers maintain that their wages are equivalent to those paid theatre projectionists in other North American cities like Chicago and New York, and that the employer can easily afford to pay. Their parent companies, Viacom (Famous Players) and Sony (Cineplex) , are two of the worlds wealthiest multinational corporations with combined earings of over $64 Billion in 1997.
 | Projectionist with pictures of his kids on his picket sign. He points to these pictures when theatre patrons, with kids in tow, claim they have "no choice" but to cross the line because the kids "wouldn't understand". |
| One of the youngest picketers at July 27 event. His dad has been locked out for 8 months by Sony and Viacom. |
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Young picket's dad and kid sister. |
working TV #148
August 06 1999 � Slim Evans 1999
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