Redstone 8 Strike Fund

Employees at the Redstone 8 Theater in Park City, Utah, are on strike in pursuit of a higher wage and a better theater for Park City!

The Redstone 8, a location which hosts the Sundance Film Festival, has underpaid its employees for years. Individual requests for Metropolitan Theatres' corporate leadership to recognize the mounting financial insecurity theater employees face as a result of low pay has been met with silence, and customer experience has suffered due to massive turnover. The striking workers have offered the corporate office a proposal of $14/hr, a wage already paid to almost all Metropolitan Theatres locations in other states; employees are now on strike to save Park City's only movie theaters from corporate neglect.

The strike, which began on August 18, has forced management to the table to negotiate, but a continued strike will be necessary to demonstrate the depth of Park City's interest in protecting its theater. To this end, employees have started this strike fund. Every dollar donated to this fund will be distributed among striking workers who need to pay rent, utilities, and other bills that the Redstone 8's wage is too low to pay.

Any amount helps give Park City a better theater! Patrons of Sundance, in particular, stand to benefit directly from better conditions at one of the Festival's host locations.