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I say this sincerely: you’ve got a better chance at unionizing the main youtubers or twitter posters than you do the pro wrestlers and mma fighters at this point, even with various “investigations” of wrestling theoretically possible under a new administration
In the case of wrestling, even orgs talking a more progressive game fall short, because a) the revenue pie is smaller than you think and b) the boss picks the winners even as you cooperate with each other.
In mma, the revenue pie is even smaller, and you fight to please the boss
In mma, the revenue pie is even smaller, and you fight to please the boss
These organizations were almost like dry runs for the “all-against-all” labor dynamics of the app gig world, in which each participant is an Army of One battling every other soul for crumbs from the table.
Wrestling had moments - Jesse Ventura, Jim Wilson - when it could have gone differently, but it was the other workers who shut that shit down. Latter day unionizers like that recent #SpeakingOut casualty seem to be pushing the union mainly to have VICE articles written about it
If I wrestled or fought on the indie circuits and started going hard on unionizing with no actual grounds or ability to do this, across a workforce more casual than the most casual day laborers at a Christmas Tree farm...know I’m working a coverage angle. Doing well by doing good
