Quote Originally Posted by alxone View Post
thats funny i always felt that union workers are freeloaders . as a matter of fact i have had the union try to take over a few places that i have worked and at least one place where i got the wage and benefits raised . unions have their place but its not for everyone . unions tend to bread laziness like a plague . some say you cant do this or that on a large scale without the union , not true . i have run crews in the hundreds and built some of the largest temporary structures on the planet (well at the time) , all nonunion . of course i have also had union members come to my house (it did not work for them) to try to threaten me because i believe in the right to work without joining or paying into a union . forcing people to join a union or forcing business to use union will drive small business in the toilet and make big ones leave the country . we as a nation wonder why everything is made overseas that was once made here , lets just say unions played a big part in ruining it for everybody (imo).
Quote Originally Posted by alxone View Post
not true (at least in entertainment ), i have had the unions from all over the country ask me to help find them help for their gigs but strangely i have never had to call them . yes the union gets mad when the labor contract goes to someone like me cause they cant fill the bill .
I thought I remembered you being a staging/rigger guy ...... as an LD I know all too well how bad local unions can be ( not just Denver.... try getting anything done and done RIGHT in a union house in NYC... UGH.. )

Yeah the Local ITASE has staffing issues .. I've been asked to be on the call list.. but as someone with 20 years in the biss I'm not going to go back to kicking carpet at the convention center... I put in my hard work dues long ago. hard to go back ..

I was just saying I understood the point of view that they spent 20 years paying union dues and now the newbies get to come in and get the same or damn close wages/benefits and not pay the dues / work the union did.

THe production company I work for mainly is basically 5 main people... 3 of them in the same family LOL (husband wife son) Trying to unionize us would be crushing defeat.. and even if somehow we did .. it would just destroy the small company that we are.