Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There are plenty of dishonest things which are not illegal. Frank On 27 Jun, 2004, at 00:53, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > Photographers are like crabs in a bucket, crawling over one another, > every > ready to undercut the other person. > As far as a union is concerned, The Newspaper Guild used to handle the > PJ > photographers, but with very poor and weak representation. They've > recently > been absorbed by the CWA, Communication Workers of America, an AFL-CIO > affiliate. The AP's shooters are all CWA. Somewhat like a shop union, > you > have to join when you start working. > As far as the studio shooters are concerned, that's IATSI, usually > referred > to as IA. One becomes a member by shooting X amount of time on > non-union > jobs, that's right scab jobs, before one is qualified to be initiated > into > the IA. > Also, the producer is the one hiring you, and you own none of the work > you > produce, ever. As they represent the pinnacle, or at least own of the > peaks, > of the industry, they are proof that organized crime was never able to > make > inroads into the movie business. Was there supposed to be wink there? > Naw! > Maybe not. > S. Dimitrov > > >> From: Feli di Giorgio <feli@creocollective.com> >> Organization: Creo >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Date: 26 Jun 2004 13:38:48 -0700 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] 50mm F1.4 redux, or on the need for speed. >> >> On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 18:09, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: >>> It's kind of hard to retire on slave or form W2 wages. >>> S. Dimitrov >> >> Ok, I really have no idea how all of this works, but I have been >> reading about >> how the wages for photographers have fallen through the floor and how >> the >> current >> contract are fairly draconian etc. If this is such a huge problem, >> why don't >> the >> shooters form a guild or union or something? Am I barking up the >> wrong tree? >> Here in Hollywood everyone is in a guild or union or something. >> >> Just a question. >> >> Feli >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >