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Left unsaid is some of the craziness associated with Hollywood unions: I have a friend who was a PA (e.g. drive cross-town to get a particular type of food for
by wallflower 14y ago
Left unsaid is some of the craziness associated with Hollywood unions:
I have a friend who was a PA (e.g. drive cross-town to get a particular type of food for Christina Aguilera). Every ten days or so they would get fired and rehired the next day. Why? Because if they worked past ten days they had to be part of the union.
On a set, the unions require a certain amount of union workers to be present (even for extras). To get around this, they hand out union vouchers (which makes you virtually but not literally a union member for a 'day').
Why are movies so expensive? A friend of mine has a cousin who is one of the on-site EMTs for a Hollywood studio (e.g. he idles near the ambulance in case of emergency). For that, he gets paid north of $200k/yr. For (usually) doing nothing.