Sunday, March 01, 2009
Art Directors Guild Is Restructured Following Merger With Two Other IA Locals
Yahoo! Finance: "The Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800 (ADG) has announced a complete restructuring following the merger with Locals 790 and 847 (Set Designers and Model Makers; Illustrators and Matte Artists), forming a larger and more visible union local representing nearly all the Art Department crafts. (Previously, in 2003, the Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists merged with the Art Directors Guild to form the Art Directors Guild & Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists.) Total membership now numbers 2,000."
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I don't know enough of the history of these locals to know if they have been underrepresented and had trouble, but my understanding has always been that unions are most functional when representing a fairly small number of people with similar interests. It seems to me that the more people they try to please, the fewer they can. The more compromises they have to make internally, and the less unified they can be upstream. The article doesn't talk much about previous issues they were dealing with, but trying to represent more viewpoints with less overhead seems like a big challenge.
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