[consulting] Unionizing Drupal

[Eric Goldhagen]

At 4:10 PM -0400 8/7/10, Eric Goldhagen wrote:
>
>I don't want to mis-state how they organize, so I'm going to make
>sure I have it right by talking to some of them first, then I'll post
>more here.

In order to give an incentive to the employers, one of the 
interesting things that IATSE does is this: when one person signs a 
contract to do a specific job on a production, a second person that 
the union knows is qualified to do the same work also signs. This 
provides the employer with a certain protection, knowing that if the 
first person gets hit by a bus, that the second person will be there 
to take over. They use a set of standard contracts which take into 
account different skills and the difference in cost of living and 
labor in different regions, but those base contracts are negotiated 
as a union so when an individual contractor lands a gig, they work 
within the pay range and skillset defined in the larger contract.

I'm still not sure if our industry is organizable, but if it is it 
would be under a similar model.

--Eric
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