National Right to Work Foundation: James Harker, a New York-based movie production electrician, has a resume filled with big-name films that take place in the Big Apple, including Elf, Spider-Man 3, Men in Black II, and, recently, Steven Spielberg’s 2021 West Side Story.
But, while helping these and many other silver screen stories come to life, he witnessed a much more sinister plot unfolding among his fellow production workers.
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I think it is great that at least for Local 52 that non union members will not be discriminated against because I think there are a lot of barriers for different people to enter unions. Also being a union member doesn’t necessarily judge how skilled or well suited a worker is for the job. I can understand why movie and film would not want to hire non union members for consistency, insurance, and right purposes but joining a union is often the first barrier especially for theatre workers because often you need x number hours working to join but it’s hard get those hours of work not being hired somewhere that requires you to be a part of the union. Often joining a union can come with it’s own discriminatory practices creating a trickling issue of discrimination when union bosses reject non union members. The entertainment industry is a dirty one and it’s not surprising that these practices probably are everywhere-but hopefully this will be the start of many locals changing.
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