REVEALED: Target Hired UNION ACTORS For ANTI-UNION Propaganda Video

[Segami]

:grr: :grr:



:wtf:

" Two actors who appeared in an anti-union propaganda video for mega-retailer Target, which made waves on the Internet this week after being released by Gawker, have been discovered to be a part of the very evils their scripts warned so sternly about: labor unions.



And in a stroke of irony, the store's anti-union spokesman, actor Ric Reitz, can be seen again later this summer filling the role of president of the United States in the Hollywood blockbuster Green Lantern.



He's also had numerous roles in Hallmark's Hall of Fame TV series and appeared in films such as Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Juwanna Man and Remember the Titans.



His co-star, Nicky Buggs, is also a union member who's appeared in movies like Secret Lives of Bees, Road Trip and TV show Army Wives.



Target even shot its commercial with the blessings of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), a union.



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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/16/targets-anti-union-propaganda-actors-revealed-to-be-union-members/



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[Blue Owl]

1. Through the looking glass, indeed...

Wow.

[FLAprogressive]

2. Fellow AFTRA members ought to give those fucking scabs hell.

[Deep13]

3. Agreed. Scabs suck. nt

[Dreamer Tatum]

4. How exactly are they scabs? nt

[Deep13]

6. Well maybe not scabs exactly, but...

...it is as if a union worker took a side job working for the security company that supplies union-busting goons.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. Yes, the term ''scab'' technically refers only to working against labor unions in a specific way.

Namely, breaking a strike.

But in my opinion that is a sensible extension of the term. Maybe you could call it a synecdoche.

[Dreamer Tatum]

10. How exactly are they breaking a strike again?

I see a company making a perfectly legal video, using union labor (probably in front of and behind the camera).

I'd say the joke is on Target.

[Brickbat]

14. Many of us in unions throw the term "scab" around in reference to people who are undercutting other

union workers. I'd say it applies here.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. Try to understand my post, will you?

Sigh.

[Deep13]

16. Yes, there are many ways to betray your own cause and screw working people that are perfectly legal.

It's an anti-union ad. That really ought to explain why it should be objectionable.

[Deep13]

5. "...later this summer ... in the Hollywood blockbuster Green Lantern."

How can they tell it will be a blockbuster if it hasn't been released yet?

[Tempest]

9. Because of one truism

Sucky movies made in Hollywood make a lot of money.

And the more it sucks, the more it makes.

[Segami]

11. Didn't you get the memo? ALL pre-release movies are ALL blockbuster hits according to the spin gurus

:rofl:

[Tempest]

7. “If someone hires me to play a rapist, does it make me a rapist?"

“If someone hires me to play a rapist, does it make me a rapist? You take the job, and you’re an actor,” Reitz said. “Am I pro-union? Absolutely.”


It makes you a sell-out to your own cause. I hope the union leadership kicks him out and he never gets another acting job again.

[Deep13]

13. If someone hired him to BE a rapist it would. nt

[FLAprogressive]

19. +1

[qb]

22. "I'm not a backstabber, but I play one in Target's propaganda films."

:puke:

[Patiod]

23. My SO is an actor, and there is work he has refused

No payday loans or other financial scam products (furniture rental, etc)
No Republican candidates

He hasn't been asked to do any anti-union work, but as the son of a Teamster leader whose name he bears, he wouldn't DARE.

Sadly, he's done more than one industrial where he's the sexually-harassing boss, in films made to teach people what sexual harassment is, and how NOT to do it.

[Brickbat]

12. The word is Solidarity, assholes. Shame on them.

[Segami]

18. Oh, here are your keys Mr. Target and the car has been topped up with fuel. You are ready to go!

NOW go ahead and run us UNION members over cause we don't mind.

:sarcasm:

[LadyHawkAZ]

17. I already don't shop at Target

what a bunch of assholes.

[qb]

20. Another fascinating twist the drama that is Gregg Steinhafel's Target.

By mixing his right-wing politics with Target policies he has managed to alienate formerly loyal customers who are LGBT and their allies, and now union members and supporters.

I'm wondering... how exactly does this benefit Target shareholders?
:shrug:

[Springer9]

21. Union membership isn't always voluntary, many times it's a condition

of employment. In Minnesota, if that's where the video was produced, it could very well have been a "closed shop", membership required.

Years ago when I lived up there, Targets distribution center truck drivers were Teamsters while the retail stores are non-union.

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. I think all experienced actors are union

And the newer inexperienced ones are not union.

So perhaps Target was unable to find actors for this commercial who were not union?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

25. More likely, they considered it critical that the lies be conveyed in a convincing fashion

and thought the potential pie-in-the-face was a reasonable price to pay.