tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post5922693177600705874..comments2024-03-29T02:18:35.303-07:00Comments on TAG Blog: Organizer's Notes: Steve Wright - Latest FUD DistributorSteve Huletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537689111433326847noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-91925617638423089072011-06-17T21:14:32.597-07:002011-06-17T21:14:32.597-07:00Mr. Kaplan - Your summary of my essay was stellar....Mr. Kaplan - Your summary of my essay was stellar. Your rebuttal, less so.<br /><br />FUD-free commentary<br /><br />As a promoter of unionization, your motives are obvious. My motives are the health of the employment in Los Angeles for VFX artists. I do not want to see the last remnants of VFX work driven out of L.A. which is exactly what I believe will happen. I don't Fear it, I am not Uncertain, and have no Doubt.<br /><br />Self-referencing your own blogs and writings hardly constitutes compelling evidence to support your case. Citing a few articles about the occasional opening of a studio here hardly reverses the overall trend to leave the L.A. area. DD opened their big new facility not in L.A. but in Florida. You know why? Major tax advantages, plus Florida is a right to work state (non-union). Now why would the wise owners of DD move to a right to work state?<br /><br />I noticed that you failed to mention to your fair readers that IATSE used to have a union at ILM, Local 16, which is now defunct. If unionizing is so good for VFX artists why was IATSE driven from ILM? <br /><br />I suppose the most glaring fault in your defense of unionization for VFX artists is the portability problem. When unionizing automobile workers, cel animators, or electricians there is no threat of the business picking up and leaving town. With VFX, the work is utterly portable, so if the costs get too high the work simply goes elsewhere. End of analysis. And end of your job. Excuse me - not your job. You are the union guy. You get to keep your job. It is the VFX artists that will loose their jobs.Steve Wrightnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-82377937631794516732011-02-28T17:00:36.504-08:002011-02-28T17:00:36.504-08:00Neither the IA nor the Animation Guild act as over...Neither the IA nor the Animation Guild act as over-officious hall monitors regarding CGI classifications. TAG hasn't filed a grievance over a CG employee working "out of classification" in a dozen years, and only one or two before that. (And those were re non-union employees performing union work.)<br /><br />But Mr. Wright is mostly repeating the same empty warnings made by studio moguls in the 1930s. (Darryl Zanuck, a former movie writer, fought against the Screen Writers Guild for years. Zanuck claimed unionization would destroy the business, yet here it seventy-plus years later, still chugging away. How did that happen?)Steve Huletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537689111433326847noreply@blogger.com