I wonder why all of the wild speculation? Donald Trump will be
exactly what Donald Trump has been from the first day that his face
appeared in the news. As president, he will not suddenly become
elevated to some Higher Moral Ground.
He will take the reigns of power and run the nation as close to the
way he has directed his vast personal Empire. He will lie when it
serves his purpose, cheat if it gains his desired results, and treat
all Working Class citizens as he treats his own employees.
And that will begin on January 20.
Carl Jarvis
On 12/25/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dayen writes: "Many expected footage of Donald Trump's hundreds of hours in
'The Apprentice' boardroom to yield something just as incendiary. But
outtakes from the show were never leaked. One of the plausible reasons why
this footage hasn't seen the light of day is that, simply put, many of the
employees with access to the footage feared the end of their careers."
Donald Trump. (photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty)
"The Apprentice" Employees Feared Professional Reprisal Over Trump Leaks
By David Dayen, The Intercept
24 December 16
After the infamous "grab her by the pussy" Access Hollywood tape, many
expected footage of Donald Trump's hundreds of hours in "The Apprentice"
boardroom to yield something just as incendiary. But outtakes from the show
were never leaked. One of the plausible reasons why this footage hasn't
seen
the light of day is that, simply put, many of the employees with access to
the footage feared the end of their careers.
It's a concern that highlights the dangers of working in an industry
without
job security or union representation.
On a Seattle radio show this week, comedian Tom Arnold claimed the
existence
of an old edited video of Trump "saying every dirty, offensive, racist
thing
ever." Explaining why "The Apprentice" staffers who made the reel never
tried to release it, Arnold said, "They were scared to death. They were
scared of (Trump's) people. They're scared they'll never work again."
Similarly, a Vanity Fair article breaking down the yearlong effort by the
media and the Clinton campaign to obtain "Apprentice" tapes claimed
employees "feared reprisals, or simply worried that blowing a whistle would
prevent them from getting jobs on the sets of other reality programs." One
industry employee told the magazine, "They are all terrified of being sued.
. Most of these people are freelancers, and there is no one that is going
to
protect them."
Unscripted television blossomed in part as a union-busting device. During
and after the 1988 television writers' strike, networks developed shows
like
Cops and Unsolved Mysteries to maintain programming in the event of another
walkout. These shows were cheaper to produce because of the lack of union
contracts (particularly because they didn't have to pay out residuals after
the fact).
The rise of reality TV arguably prevented a 2001 writers walkout, and
though
a 2007 strike ended with the Writers Guild winning a decent contract, they
did not organize reality shows to boost their bargaining power. This is
beginning to change - editors on Burnett's "Survivor" actually have a union
contract - but the vast majority of the industry remains nonunion. And
nearly half of all programming on broadcasting and cable is unscripted,
moving Hollywood away from its labor roots.
Those producers, editors, and writers who transform thousands of hours of
footage into something coherent, if not watchable, are typically contract
employees who move from job to job, none lasting more than a few months
(this makes union organizing extremely difficult). Independent production
companies create and sell the shows to the networks, and their profits
increase with how much they can exploit their workers. Freelancers get no
health care or pension benefits, vacation or sick days, and often no
overtime, amid hazardous field conditions. Time sheet falsification and
wage
theft run rampant.
Perhaps most important, your future career depends on good working
relationships with production companies and supervisors. If Mark Burnett
threatens to prevent you from working again if you cross him, that's a
credible threat, since employees find their next jobs through
recommendations and repeat business. Even though staffers could have leaked
material anonymously, the risk of ending their careers loomed larger,
because nobody in the industry is looking out for the individual worker,
who
competes with hundreds of others to land a gig. Blackballing in such an
environment is simple.
Unions can protect workers from blackballing threats by raising grievances.
They can ensure the fairness of contracts like confidentiality agreements.
They can police industries on behalf of workers. Their absence pushes all
the power to producers like Burnett, which can collude on wages and
threaten
workers to bring them to heel.
The lack of bargaining power for nonunion contract workers has become a
hallmark of the U.S. economy. New research from Harvard's Lawrence Katz and
Princeton's Alan Krueger finds that 94 percent of the 10 million jobs
created in the Obama era were temporary, part-time, or "gig economy"
positions. This hands tremendous power to employers to dictate terms of
employment, and to even break the law, without pushback. And blackballing
threats are perhaps the quintessential example.
Threats that "you'll never work in this town again" should not have been an
impediment to anonymous leaking of material on Trump that someone may have
considered in the public interest. The fact that it was, that people didn't
think their identities would remain hidden and that their career would end,
speaks to the climate of fear that grips the unscripted TV industry. And it
increasingly characterizes the U.S. workforce, where the boss has
disproportionate power and control.
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Donald Trump. (photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty)
https://theintercept.com/2016/12/23/the-apprentice-employees-feared-professi
onal-reprisal-over-leaks/https://theintercept.com/2016/12/23/the-apprentice-
employees-feared-professional-reprisal-over-leaks/
"The Apprentice" Employees Feared Professional Reprisal Over Trump Leaks
By David Dayen, The Intercept
24 December 16
fter the infamous "grab her by the pussy" Access Hollywood tape, many
expected footage of Donald Trump's hundreds of hours in "The Apprentice"
boardroom to yield something just as incendiary. But outtakes from the show
were never leaked. One of the plausible reasons why this footage hasn't
seen
the light of day is that, simply put, many of the employees with access to
the footage feared the end of their careers.
It's a concern that highlights the dangers of working in an industry
without
job security or union representation.
On a Seattle radio show this week, comedian Tom Arnold claimed the
existence
of an old edited video of Trump "saying every dirty, offensive, racist
thing
ever." Explaining why "The Apprentice" staffers who made the reel never
tried to release it, Arnold said, "They were scared to death. They were
scared of (Trump's) people. They're scared they'll never work again."
Similarly, a Vanity Fair article breaking down the yearlong effort by the
media and the Clinton campaign to obtain "Apprentice" tapes claimed
employees "feared reprisals, or simply worried that blowing a whistle would
prevent them from getting jobs on the sets of other reality programs." One
industry employee told the magazine, "They are all terrified of being sued.
. Most of these people are freelancers, and there is no one that is going
to
protect them."
Unscripted television blossomed in part as a union-busting device. During
and after the 1988 television writers' strike, networks developed shows
like
Cops and Unsolved Mysteries to maintain programming in the event of another
walkout. These shows were cheaper to produce because of the lack of union
contracts (particularly because they didn't have to pay out residuals after
the fact).
The rise of reality TV arguably prevented a 2001 writers walkout, and
though
a 2007 strike ended with the Writers Guild winning a decent contract, they
did not organize reality shows to boost their bargaining power. This is
beginning to change - editors on Burnett's "Survivor" actually have a union
contract - but the vast majority of the industry remains nonunion. And
nearly half of all programming on broadcasting and cable is unscripted,
moving Hollywood away from its labor roots.
Those producers, editors, and writers who transform thousands of hours of
footage into something coherent, if not watchable, are typically contract
employees who move from job to job, none lasting more than a few months
(this makes union organizing extremely difficult). Independent production
companies create and sell the shows to the networks, and their profits
increase with how much they can exploit their workers. Freelancers get no
health care or pension benefits, vacation or sick days, and often no
overtime, amid hazardous field conditions. Time sheet falsification and
wage
theft run rampant.
Perhaps most important, your future career depends on good working
relationships with production companies and supervisors. If Mark Burnett
threatens to prevent you from working again if you cross him, that's a
credible threat, since employees find their next jobs through
recommendations and repeat business. Even though staffers could have leaked
material anonymously, the risk of ending their careers loomed larger,
because nobody in the industry is looking out for the individual worker,
who
competes with hundreds of others to land a gig. Blackballing in such an
environment is simple.
Unions can protect workers from blackballing threats by raising grievances.
They can ensure the fairness of contracts like confidentiality agreements.
They can police industries on behalf of workers. Their absence pushes all
the power to producers like Burnett, which can collude on wages and
threaten
workers to bring them to heel.
The lack of bargaining power for nonunion contract workers has become a
hallmark of the U.S. economy. New research from Harvard's Lawrence Katz and
Princeton's Alan Krueger finds that 94 percent of the 10 million jobs
created in the Obama era were temporary, part-time, or "gig economy"
positions. This hands tremendous power to employers to dictate terms of
employment, and to even break the law, without pushback. And blackballing
threats are perhaps the quintessential example.
Threats that "you'll never work in this town again" should not have been an
impediment to anonymous leaking of material on Trump that someone may have
considered in the public interest. The fact that it was, that people didn't
think their identities would remain hidden and that their career would end,
speaks to the climate of fear that grips the unscripted TV industry. And it
increasingly characterizes the U.S. workforce, where the boss has
disproportionate power and control.
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