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JDF has said that it was mostly that they wanted higher pay and Amy Jo Johnson claims that it was because they wanted to make the show union. So I would say that it was due to a combination of wanting better working conditions and higher pay.

That's right. I mean, even I head/read somewhere that the cast was made to work often beyond their work hours, so the three wanted more money for their work, which is understandable to me. Of course Saban didn't want to give them a raise and they got fired and replaced. I believe that "Opposites Attract" was the last episode that the three actors were involved in production of. Then, all the way up to "The Power Transfer", all we get from Jason, Trini and Zack is their Ranger modes with bad voice-overs or with no voices from/of the three at all, which started around "Welcome to the Venus Island" and the stunt-doubles, posing as the three, while the episodes were focused more on Billy, Kimberly and Tommy and the replacement characters, when Rocky, Adam and Aisha came into the story.

Haim truly is one of the cheapest people on the planet. The guy is making millions off of PR and he doesn't even pay his employees a fair wage (Amy Jo said it was about $600 a week)

Amy Jo Johnson claims that it was because they wanted to make the show union.

Originally Posted by Amy Jo Johnson
AJJ: I don’t know. You know what, we spent a lot of time with Shuki Levy. We spent a fair bit of time with Haim in that first year when they were creating [the show]. I think, obviously, they were pleasantly surprised. I mean, we were a non-union show. Literally, we were being paid, I think, tops $600 a week. No residuals; absolutely not one residual. I don’t know if you know what that means, but you know when they air the shows right now, with the shows that I — ?

Lisa J: Right. The re-runs, yeah.

AJJ: Yeah, that first generation [with] the original cast…nothing. Zero. It became union, I think, maybe three years after I left? I’m not sure at what point.

Lisa J: Yeah. I forgot what season, but it did become union.

AJJ: At some point, yeah. So they get compensated, but of course they play the original ones most of the time anyway! [Laughs]

Lisa J: Wow. Six hundred dollars a week?!

AJJ: I think it was around there! It was like that and we were doing two episodes a week. [Laughs] I don’t remember; I can probably find an old pay stub, but it was nothing! We had no agents. I had no agent at all! But! At the same time, it was an amazing training ground. It taught me so much. I went through learning how to be on a set, deal with the crew, stop looking in the mirror. I learned that real quick. Like, there’s a hair and make-up person, they’ll take care of that. You don’t need to be looking in your mirror and looking at what you look like. All these little things — hitting a mark. It was like school.

I think the frustrating thing for me — not frustrating, but nerve-racking – that, it was school and we weren’t hugely compensated. And it became so popular that …that’s what gave me nightmares. It was sort of overwhelming, you know? Like, if that show stopped tomorrow I’m going to have to go down the street and become a waitress again. But at that time, it was so popular. The kids who loved the show were awesome. That was amazing to have that fanbase. But it also brought in a fanbase that wasn’t kids, like men. A lot of people in prison!

AJJ: Oh, okay. Anyway! Yeah, she was great. And I think I did three episodes that she was in, as well, or something like that. I’m not sure. But I worked with her a little bit and she was great. The year before, Austin and Walter and Thuy had left because they wanted [the show] to go Union. They had every right to want that and I was just naïve and young and stupid. And David left too — No, David stayed. What am I talking about? And me and David and Jason stayed. In hindsight, I wonder if we all band[ed] together. I wonder what would have happened. I wonder if we would’ve become Union. I don’t know. I don’t know.

Lisa J: So they went in by themselves and went, “Look, we want to become Union.”?

AJJ: Yeah, and they said, “Really? You want to become Union. Okay, I’m just going to replace you guys.” So it became the Power Rangers thing. I always say it’s kind of like Menudo. Right? Because the members in the band always changed, so we became completely replaceable, right? Which, I think is basically the truth on any show, really. People are expendable. At the end of the day, we’re all…

Tristan: And I’ve always wondered how was it being right in the middle of that, where suddenly you’re doing scenes where, at least on screen, maybe you would have a line where you would say, “Oh great da-duh-duh-da-da, Trini!” and then it’d cut to stock footage of Trini from some previous episode because Thuy was not there.

AJJ: Yeah, it was a weird time. I don’t know; I didn’t really know what was happening. I didn’t even have an agent yet. I was friends with Shuki. You know what? At the time, I don’t even think I knew what a union was. I just was so green. It was an awkward time. When they left, it was sad because we all started it together. And I left just a year later, because I was done. I was like, “Okay, this has been great. Now it’s time to…”

Lisa J: Move on.

AJJ: Yeah.

If you sign a nonunion contract with clauses for just these circumstances, this is what can happen. There was nothing they were forced to do during MMPR Mania that wasn't covered contractually. It's just, you know, they deserved bonuses for stuff like looping for promos, live appearances everywhere, etc. That was an inhuman working schedule. If they weren't contractually entitled to breaks (they weren't), they were entitled to a little extra scratch for it.