Union Musicians Hit Marvel & Disney With Outsourcing Protests Again
4 views - published on May 24th, 2013 in Disney News tagged Disney, disney news, disneyland, walt disney, walt disney worldThe American Federation of Musicians are not vouchsafing adult on Marvel and Disney for scoring their films abroad while removing taxation breaks during home. This time a kinship was in Cleveland tighten to where filming for Captain America: The Winter Soldier was occurring. About 35 AFM members took to a city’s downtown streets on Thursday to criticism a measure for a star spangled supplement being outsourced to a UK while Marvel/Disney accept a scarcely $10 million taxation credit for filming in Ohio. Chanting “bring a song home,” kinship members handed out flyers slamming a essential studio for streamer “straight to Europe and hired unfamiliar musicians underneath a list and on a cheap, robbing U.S. musicians of their jobs.”
“People we spoke to on a travel in Cleveland were repelled by what a studio was doing, holding their taxation dollars that are dictated to keep jobs in a US and doing a accurate opposite,” Linda Rapka of LA-based Local 47 told me. Rapka was in Cleveland with 3 other members from LA and dual others from NYC Local 802. The AFM was assimilated in Cleveland also by members of a SEIU, a AFI-CIO and food services kinship UNITE HERE. The AFM, that has about 90,000 members in a US and Canada, are formulation destiny protests opposite Marvel/Disney. This latest movement this week comes just over month after a AFM staged protests in LA nearby a set of The Winter Soldier over a same issue. On a same day, the kinship were handing out their flyers outward Marvel’s Manhattan offices only before a premiere of Iron Man 3. In Jun 2012, AFM had protested outward Marvel’s Manhattan Beach offices over a outsourcing of song in regards to The Avengers. Members of a kinship also protested outward a prolongation of IM3 in Wilmington, North Carolina final August. The state has a really inexhaustible taxation credit module that has successfully lured a series of Hollywood cinema and TV productions.
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