![]() 14, 2023, about 50 performers and stable hands have gone on strike at the Medieval Times about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles in Buena Park, Calif. The Orange County Register reports Tuesday, Feb. From queens to knights, actors at a Southern California medieval-themed dinner theater have left the castle. FILE - Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament actors participate in the 126th Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. The dinner theater - where audience members feast on chicken with their hands while watching jousts in a ring - has been flying in actors from its other locations to cover staffing gaps, said Erin Zapcic, who plays a queen at the theater and is among those walking off the job since Saturday. The Orange County Register reports Tuesday that about 50 performers and stable hands have gone on strike at Medieval Times about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles in Buena Park, California. (AP) - From queens to knights, actors at a Southern California medieval-themed dinner theater have left the castle. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.BUENA PARK, Calif. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account “We have to start yelling even louder.”Ībout 40 performers, including knights, squires, trumpeters and a falconer, succeeded in a union vote at the Lyndhurst, New Jersey, location last July.ĬNN’s Natasha Chen contributed to this story. “They had our account banned, and we have to take this,” Zapcic said. The union has been in wage negotiations with management since December. ![]() A screenshot shared with CNN showed CEO Perico Montaner reported the union’s Facebook account for trademark infringement. Zapcic believes the company had reported the account to be banned for violating TikTok’s intellectual property policy. The union’s last post on TikTok was advocating for fair wages. Much of the union’s support came from social media, especially on TikTok. “It is a grotesque attempt to retaliate against workers for exercising their legally protected right to form a union and bargain collectively,” Medieval Times Performers United and the American Guild of Variety Artists said in a statement in October. In October, Medieval Times filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the union for using the company name, which is still ongoing. The union has filed numerous unfair labor practice charges against the company both in California and New Jersey, including one on their TikTok account getting banned. ![]() The closest location to California is in Scottsdale, Arizona. Zapcic said the company is pulling performers from other departments and non-unionized locations. The strike is affecting performances at the location. “They love to tell us that we’re not Broadway and it’s absolutely correct,” Zapcic said. But since reopening after COVID, staffing levels were so short, workers were performing six days a week. Zapcic said people work at Medieval Times because they love it, not for the money. ![]() Medieval Times workers walk a picket line in Buena Park, California.
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