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You’re thinking of a blue collar union. Creative unions establish minimum pay and working conditions but not maximum or promotion. Otherwise you wouldn’t have
by jedberg 3y ago
You’re thinking of a blue collar union.
Creative unions establish minimum pay and working conditions but not maximum or promotion.
Otherwise you wouldn’t have actors making millions.
- Alupis 3y agoActors make millions the same way Sport Stars make millions - their name alone fills seats. Actors say no to a lot of opportunities because they don't compensate well enough, or don't align with the actor's goals. No VFX person will ever earn millions, no matter how cool their intro title screen is or whatever. Nobody cares... which limits compensation.
- jedberg 3y agoThe point is the downsides to a union that you called out don’t apply to creative unions.
- Alupis 3y agoWho's to say VFX would be a creative union? Majority of the work your average VFX person does is cookie-cutter stuff. It's more similar to being a cog in a SaaS shop than being an actual artist.
- gruez 3y ago> You’re thinking of a blue collar union. >Creative unions establish minimum pay and working conditions but not maximum or promotion. Is the type of union that you're getting up for debate when people are voting for unions? My impression is that "voting for a union" just sets up the organization, but you'd need to wait for it to be established and for the representatives to be voted in to know how it turns out. Absent a concrete plan that's being voted for, "voting for a union" could easily turn out to be a brexit type of situation, where people have different ideas on what a "union" (or brexit) is, but no single idea actually has majority support, so most people end up not liking the outcome.