While this fight has proven difficult and remains incomplete, there are encouraging lessons to take away from this job action as well.
Organizing
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If you’re working on distant location and the picture hires editorial personnel locally, please make sure to call it in to the Guild so we can make proper arrangements for …
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Union staff can’t take the place of the membership. That means you have a role, too.
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The EFCA isn’t going to cure all that ails us, but such a law would give unions better tools to fight for fair wages and better working conditions.
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These young people, at least those who do manage to find a way into this crazy business, are the future of this Guild.
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The NLRB is becoming increasingly irrelevant for workers in the United States.
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Getting Organized
The Force Is with Us: Skywalker Sound Now Represented by MPEG
by uncreditedby uncreditedThe Skywalker employees were extremely supportive of the effort and did an outstanding job convincing their management that such a move would be beneficial for all concerned.
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Getting Organized
Go Figure: Contrary to the Belief of Some, Unionizing Doesn’t Just Happen
by uncreditedby uncreditedOrganizing cannot be done without a very high level of discussion and interaction between the people who will be affected by it.
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Getting Organized
In Reality, Guild Looks to More Contracts, Agreements in 2006
by uncreditedby uncreditedThis past November, IATSE/Editors Guild reached collective bargaining agreements with two companies that we successfully organized earlier in the year.
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Getting Organized
‘Extreme Makeover’ Guild Addition: Management Fails to Intimidate
by uncreditedby uncreditedThese courageous editors found a way to hold together a majority and vote for the Guild.