![]() While it’s all part of the show, Bowman said the horses are abused through overtraining. During the show, knights jump between moving horses and fall to the ground. While workers are on strike over unfair labor practices, the current bargaining focuses on what workers allege are outdated and abusive animal training techniques that put their health and safety at risk the long-term health impacts of the physicality of many performers’ work and the cost of living in expensive Southern California.Īnimal abuse, and the danger it creates for performers, is a singular feature of Medieval Times’ horse-oriented shows. As far as MTU is aware, UPS drivers have also stopped delivering. Teamsters Joint Council 42 has sanctioned the strike and stopped delivering food to the castle the company has rented its own truck and non-union driver to do food pickup. The strikers say the company’s move was intended to deny them the ability to spread the message to drivers entering the parking lot. They’ve seen an increase in people requesting ticket refunds after seeing the picket line and talking with strikers.īut after the attacks, strikers moved the picket line from the crosswalk inside the parking lot to just outside the front ticket booth, both to keep strikers safe from aggressive drivers and because the company has now painted over its crosswalks. Around 30 of the 45 performers are on strike. Bowman said the union’s tactics have focused on visibility, so that people entering the venue recognize they are crossing a picket line. The large performance facility is in the heart of Orange County’s entertainment district. The assaults brought into public view the challenges that members of Medieval Times Performers United (MTU)-representing actors, stunt performers, and stable hands organizing with the American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA)-have faced since their strike began February 11. Sometimes you may have to yell louder to convince people to care.” ![]() Some people cared more about getting into their two-hour, completely optional entertainment venue than workers’ lives. “People would get out of their cars and throw picketers to the ground. “We began to get run over by cars,” said Jake Bowman, a Medieval Times knight-turned-union organizer. Shocking video of Medieval Times strikers in Buena Park, California, run down by a car and then physically assaulted while picketing in a crosswalk had hundreds of thousands of views on social media in April. ![]()
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