tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post116217347546241237..comments2024-03-26T22:42:06.412-07:00Comments on TAG Blog: Fulcrum Power (Or...Having Leverage)Steve Huletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537689111433326847noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-1162275609661619192006-10-30T22:20:00.000-08:002006-10-30T22:20:00.000-08:00Federal law says a company rep canNOT say to emplo...Federal law says a company rep canNOT say to employees: "If you vote to go union, we'll close the place."<BR/><BR/>But it's okay to say: "Gee, we sure hope will be able to keep the doors open if we're forced to go union..."<BR/><BR/>Minimal difference, eh? However, the second is permitted, and the first isn't. Both, of course, are intimidation.<BR/><BR/>As to the manager, he was good at whining and sucking all the oxygen out of our conversation. I ended up listening politely and then saying I disagreed. Doing anything else would have been semi-pointless.Steve Huletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537689111433326847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-1162260122142765172006-10-30T18:02:00.000-08:002006-10-30T18:02:00.000-08:00I'd love to know how ANY manager could claim with ...I'd love to know how ANY manager could claim with a straight face that their artists are "stabbing" THEM in the back by <I>unionizing</I>(or trying to)...what--so the guy, who I'd guess isn't the owner/CEO/head of the animation house in question, but simply another employee(albeit one "in charge") thinks that various experienced animation artists somehow OWE him--loyalty? Fealty? Kickbacks? Birthday presents? Their unending, nquestioning GRATITUDE for a JOB? A vow to never <I>try</I> for health insurance? Pardon me, but WTF? If it WERE his company, it STILL wouldn't hold water; it'd be ludicrous. But if the fellow Steve talks with <I>is</I> merely a manager, well, it's beyond ludicrous. It's moronic. <BR/><BR/>Either that, or the guy is incredibly young and/or inexperienced and thinks it's all "personal", not business, and that the staff's reason for living and working is to make him(the manager)look good, or else. Brother.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-1162248344074892692006-10-30T14:45:00.000-08:002006-10-30T14:45:00.000-08:00I thought that if a studio proclaims to any artist...I thought that if a studio proclaims to any artist that going union would be cause to shut down,it's considered intimidation, which is, in turn actionable, no?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com