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"We're out" then you go ahead and organize evynoere at X.You realize how organizing works, right? A union gets rep cards from the workers, and when that union has rep cards from the majority of workers at that studio, they can bargain with the company to represent those workers under a union contract. If evynoere but a certain job class at a studio signs rep cards, then that union is going to engage in collective bargaining for every classification that signed, and has no say about the job classification that didn't sign. But if every job classification is involved in signing rep cards, then labor law says the union is obligated to bargain for ALL the employees (which is what those employees indicated they wanted when they signed the rep cards).So to some specifics. TAG gets rep cards from every group, including writers, and is about to approach the studio to negotiate. Can TAG then call in the WGA to take over representing the writers? Of course not.Now imagine that TAG has rep cards from evynoere except the writers at that studio. What can TAG do to deliver those writers to the WGA? Nothing, except maybe give the WGA organizers a heads up about the situation.In either case, there's not a whole hell of a lot one union can do for the other. As Steve has written about, in the past he and I did meet with WGA organizers to discuss cooperation, and we shared information about a few studios that both unions had found hard nuts to crack.Ultimately it came to nothing. I will point out that it wasn't TAG's decision to cease cooperating.
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Paparazy
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18 december 2014, 08:31:30
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