Anyone know where you can find the "Yellow Card" rules in print? Heard a lot about them. See them referenced all the time in other contracts. Never seen them.
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The "yellow card" is the list of hands needed for the call organized by dept. On a yellow card show, each local hand is assigned to a department and only works in that dept. There is no "cross-over". If your electrician, you don't touch scenery and vice versa.
I think it would be fun to have a forum where we solely discuss labor; managing them, unions, local rules, etc. But this would probably be opening up Pandora's Box!
That's not an advantage, that the use of a bunch of general hands and IMHO that means no specialization, limited availability of knowledgable individuals.As a supplier of local labor, abeit nonunion, we have the advantage of moving people around.
So you're not using Union certified riggers? Who are they certified through ?About the only ones that don't shift depts are the riggers and that isn't cut in stone. 95% of my riggers are certified on forks..
Taking care of a crew means Union. You personally might feel good about being nice to hand that has no reflection whatsoever on the benefits of insurance, Healthcare and retirement that being Union would afford those workers.I travel some supplying gear for national theatre companies in arenas so I work in union houses all the time. It can be different but union or not I try to always take care of the hands.
And that, my freind is generally a safety rule, and while I have been on all ends of it; Management, Producer,vendor and hand, it's a rule one doesn't break. Besides most houses only go dark on breaks when all the crews are breaking at the same time, If you want to work a little extra on something and the carps are on break but electrics are going to be breaking in an hour , then this almost never < depends on the house and the heads> effects your ability , as the client, to be onstage inspecting, tweaking and fiddling.Because I am regularly on both ends of the equation I understand both views. One big diferences between union and nonunion is most nonunion houses don't worry about being dark when crews are on break.
That's not an advantage, that the use of a bunch of general hands and IMHO that means no specialization, limited availability of knowledgable individuals. So you're not using Union certified riggers? Who are they certified through ?
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Actually the hands tried to unionize some years back and national said they didn't think it was in their interest at that time. We are a small market so we don't have the work to keep a large number of guys working. Most of my riggers are trained by me but also work with 22 in DC as D listers, myself included. We are too far away to work there regularly so we overflow. We also attend classes taught by people like Bill Sapsis and others.That's not an advantage, that the use of a bunch of general hands and IMHO that means no specialization, limited availability of knowledgable individuals. So you're not using Union certified riggers? Who are they certified through ?
Taking care of a crew means Union. You personally might feel good about being nice to hand that has no reflection whatsoever on the benefits of insurance, Healthcare and retirement that being Union would afford those workers.
And that, my freind is generally a safety rule, and while I have been on all ends of it; Management, Producer,vendor and hand, it's a rule one doesn't break. Besides most houses only go dark on breaks when all the crews are breaking at the same time, If you want to work a little extra on something and the carps are on break but electrics are going to be breaking in an hour , then this almost never < depends on the house and the heads> effects your ability , as the client, to be onstage inspecting, tweaking and fiddling.
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