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Tue Sep 18 20:47:34 UTC 2012

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Jo Rhett <jrhett at netconsonance.com> wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>>> Tech had a person managing the feed to DragonCon from the dedicated
>>> room w/ the polycomm video conference system, for panels, in addition
>>> to the actual union operator of the camera & such.
>>
>> The camera ops had to be union?  Hmmm.  Ah, Chicago.  Yes.
>
> That has been true everywhere that Worldcon has been for a
> number of years, excluding Japan.  Hotel union contracts
> generally forbid activity being done by any non-union people,
> even if they are the guests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law

''A "right-to-work" law is a statute that prohibits union security
agreements, or agreements between labor unions and employers that
govern the extent to which an established union can require employees'
membership [...] as a condition of employment. Right-to-work laws
exist in twenty-three U.S. states,''

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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