negotiations have stalled between medieval times and the union representing the cast at the Lindhurst location New Jersey members trying to unionize over the summer following in the footsteps of other locations nationwide but workers say the company won't negotiate in good faith now the case is being dragged to court as Medieval Times sues the union for trademark infringement Ted Goldberg has the latest this potential to beat Trump will potentially be stepped on you're breaking a limb if a horse you don't weighs so much that except I knew that's it ice on wood knows the risks of working at Medieval Times on Sunday he was lucky that an accident with his horse led to a sore shoulder and not much else my horse and push didn't have their reins on them so as I'm getting onto my horse not realizing it I ended up on the horse and ended up falling off a bit as it got outside of the Arena wood says accidents are less likely to happen if Medieval Times agrees to a contract with the Union representing its employees workers say a safety and Staffing levels are top priorities in negotiations we would have some where we have a threshold of knights on nights off and they're not even just nice but also at Backstage our Squires people who are just well prepared it seems like we're being punished for unionizing here when all we want to do is have a safe work environment and get paid properly for what we do fellow Knight Jonathan beckus says he's not sure Medieval Times is operating in good faith last October the company sued the Union in federal court for trademark infringement the Union's name is Medieval Times performers United and the company alleges since Medieval Times appears in the name of the Union it could create consumer confusion they're claiming people will be confused that it'll be the company and I can assure you that we don't look like the company if that's the tactic you're going to use what other horrible evil deplorable tactics are you going to use in the future Monica Garza works as a queen she says medieval times has regulated speech on social media deleting any comments considered pro-union they started hiding comments they started deleting comments they took down comments completely on their own Tick Tock because they know that they've lost in the pub the court of public opinion we reached out to Medieval Times for a response to these allegations and to discuss the lawsuit we didn't hear back I think the lawsuit is quite frivolous on the part of the corporation William Brewster is a professor of Labor studies and employment relations at Rutgers he doesn't expect a lawsuit to do more than try and scare off workers my understanding it's like well within fair use because they are of course workers at Medieval times and they're associated with medieval times so um I it to me it's just uh it's it's just an attempt at punitive retaliation Medieval Times United has filed multiple complaints with the National Labor Relations Board while trying to ham camera out a contract it's a lawyer and then two other people and they'll sit there and tell you why you're not worth it and why they have the money to pay you but they don't value enough to do so we're making these huge concessions you know coming down huge percents of what we originally wanted former employees claim they've been pushed out because they supported the union Sean Quigley worked here for five years he agreed to return after covid for one performance and one rehearsal a week and then scheduled me for two rehearsals instead of my regular one and I missed the email where they put in thought it was going to be for two rehearsals as a result Quigley was written up I'd miss several rehearsals every years and so with other people I'd never heard anything about it it does expand on the piece of paper that by signing the write-up you are giving them permission to effectively fire you soon after Quigley was scheduled for a meeting but not a performance he quit before attending that meeting assuming he would be fired if an employee is put in a position whereby they choose to resign caused their job has effectively been made unpleasant off the back of Union organization activity protein activity and you can put clear correlation between those two things from a legal standpoint that is the same as them firing you the next step in the ongoing legal dispute between medieval times and its Union comes on Tuesday when a judge is expected to rule on a motion brought on by the union to dismiss the trademark violation lawsuit in Lyndhurst I'm Ted Goldberg NJ Spotlight news