On Our Team @onourteam.bsky.social · 26/11/2025We tell ourselves so many stories in order to justify low pay for creative workers. "It's a passion, not a profession." "You can make a killing, but not a living." "Do it for the exposure." And the below "class traitors" line, Etc... Both creative workers and consumers tell stories like this.1/2 131
Reposted by On Our TeamBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/11/2025With Black Friday approaching, there will inevitably be well-intentioned talk that these deals are only possible because workers are denied a livable wage. Don't buy into this. It's not low prices vs. fair pay. It's the demand for ever-higher profits and shareholder returns that forces deprivation. 5320100
Reposted by On Our TeamPeter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com · 25/11/2025I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books. 1852365
Reposted by On Our TeamElsa Hiltner @elsahiltner.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Multiple theft accusations by and from the folks making the most (leadership/department heads and the board, wherever they work), all while many museum workers aren't making a living wage. @hyperallergic.com @onourteam.bsky.social hyperallergic.com/1059426/phil...hyperallergic.comPhiladelphia Art Museum Accuses Former Director of TheftAfter Alexandra Suda accused the museum of wrongful termination, the institution said she misappropriated funds to increase her salary. 021
On Our Team @onourteam.bsky.social · 24/11/2025We're working on re-balancing the scales in the arts. We all need to do our part to end pay inequity in all sectors. 011
Reposted by On Our TeamNYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO @nyclabor.bsky.social · 23/11/2025UAW 2110 this week petitioned the NLRB for a union election for nearly a thousand staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Workers cite pay inequities, lack of job protection and ever-increasing workloads as reasons for the unionization efforts. Read: nycclc.org/news/staff-m... 0146
Reposted by On Our TeamSteve Ammidown @stegan.bsky.social · 19/11/2025My kingdom for a living wage. 2553
On Our Team @onourteam.bsky.social · 28/09/2025"...it’s a business built on the unpaid and underpaid labor of the very workers who generate its product. Art is labor, no different from any other kind of labor..." 072
On Our Team @onourteam.bsky.social · 26/09/2025"Do it for exposure" never ends. The exploitation of artists is the point, not some inconvenience artists have to navigate on the way to paid opportunities. 022
On Our Team @onourteam.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Hi! We're here building pay equity in the arts. Artists are workers and art is a job. www.onourteam.orgonourteam.orgOn Our TeamOn Our Team builds pay equity and labor equity in the theatre industry, and is dedicated to creating a united front in requiring equitable pay and support for theatrical designers. 030