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Originally posted by 33girl
All I can say is if BMP & MTV thought they were going to get anything done in Philly without the unions, they're dumber than I thought.
And it's not the city's "fault" it's the choice of the Teamsters Union.
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I've been a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists and the Directors Guild of America, so I don't think I can rightfully be called anti-labor.
But, I've also been a part of management for many years and hope I can look at this both ways.
The fact is that the Union took a hard line and drove the production away. They don't realize that the days of having two Teamsters with a cart, costing $175 per hour, with an hour minimum, to carry a box of paper, and some pencils to a skybox in Detroit for a political convention are over. And, yes, that really happened when I was there, because it was my budget the $175 came out of.
In this case, the city lost, and the union didn't win anything either.
Most of organized labor new realizes that compromise is a necessary part of doing business.
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