The ongoing situation regarding WWE and their refusal to classify their talents as employees has gathered more attention. It seems there will come a time soon enough that they will have to be reclassified.
SAG President Gabrielle Carteris has offered her services to provide help to Superstars and Andrew Yang mentioned recently that he has not forgotten about Vince McMahon.
On Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer talked about this situation. Yang and Carteris’ focus on WWE has shed more light on the situation. Zelina Vega’s termination could also be an incentive to delve deeper.
Ultimately, a new law need not be made. It is simply the matter of holding WWE to pre-existing codes.
“It’s not the end of the world for her but the ramifications, especially right now, for WWE making the move right now, its a tricky one because they have people who are looking at them. This is an issue that’s been around for 40 years and how they get away with it because they are a small company in certain ways, they don’t employ a lot of people. Its not like FedEx, you know, and FedEx which is a way bigger company than WWE got hammered on this very same issue, but that’s because they’re a bigger, stronger company and they’re in the public eye. WWE really isn’t. But WWE’s completely violating the standards of what the difference is. I mean, its completely violating it. It’s not even a debatable point. I guess some people can debate it but I don’t see how you debate it. Some people are like ‘oh, they’re not going to introduce a new law, it has to go through two houses’ and it’s like no, you just have to enforce the code that’s already there and somebody should go look.”
We will keep you updated on this ongoing story.
I haven’t forgotten about Vince McMahon. https://t.co/m2BGJMhqXv
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) November 14, 2020
