![]() ![]() The Medieval Times has 10 locations across North America, including Atlanta, Ga, Chicago, Il, and Toronto, Ontario. "The company really used the time to sow the seeds of discord, create a divide within the bargaining unit, and so based off the way things were going and the people we were talking to, even though we started with a super majority of the bargaining unit, there was considerable attrition or at least so it seemed throughout the process," Zapcic said.īuena Park performers petitioned for a union election on July 22 following the vote at the New Jersey location in July, she said. The vote marks the end to a nearly four-month journey for performers at Buena Park to unionize due to delays caused by company management, she said. The vote, 27-18, was a decisive one to the surprise of some performers, including Zapcic, who plays a queen at Buena Park. The cast includes knights, squires, stablehands who handle the horses, show cast with speaking roles, and trumpeters. Medieval Times puts on two-hour performances inspired by 11 th century Spain of jousting, sword fighting, and hand-to-hand combat as guests eat a four-course meal. Low wages, dangerous working conditions, and a lack of respect from company management incited performers to fight for more job security and join the American Guild of Variety Artists, which represents some performers at Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood, said Erin Zapcic, a union organizer. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Imagįrom queens and knights to horsemen and squires, the performers of Medieval Times dinner theatre castle in Buena Park, California, voted to unionize Thursday after months of back and forth with the company. William Elliot III, 35, assistant head knight and former magician in Las Vegas, makes the grand entrance as the red knight, along with fellow knights during a show at Medieval Times in Buena Park Friday, June 28, 2013.Īllen J.
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