Posts by rodgerd
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They were brought in to try to bring reason to the mess once everything had gone pear-shaped.
Cue "spolit brat", "like a lynch mob", etc. Epic fail.
No, it was all part of a strategy of unrest by the Left, you silly.
Which is no more ridiculous than the apparently global conspiracy where a US film studio and the National Party have been working together to make AE do a bunch of dumb stuff to advance both their agendas.
All it's missing is the Rothschilds and lizard people.
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I saw this movie once where journalists did this kind of digging and wrote about it in their newspapers.
But, you know, that was a movie.
Funny, I heard investigation wasn't what journalists did, because that would be biased.
(Where's the sarcasm button?)
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Only a tiny point in this whole huge debacle, but the first sentence above is not strictly accurate. In IT for example I've seen contracts with a clause that allows the employer to get rid of the contractor for any reason with a short notice period - but no matching get-out clause for the contractor. Just sayin'.
That would be why I used to carry liability insurance when I was a contractor. Because I was mindful of the fact I was in a whole other area of contract law to employment law, and like any other supplier, I could be sued if I screwed up badly enough (not that I've ever even heard of that happening to individual contractors).
One could, for example, set up a $200 company as a contracting shell to avoid that problem, and become an employee of said company. It does make the accounting a touch more complicated, but you can still claim back tax on your DVD collection, lunches, the corner of your house you designate an office, and all the other perks of self-employment. Tax breaks, you could even call them ;)
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Whipp said the campaign The Hobbit had been caught up in was part of a bigger effort to give those actors the same rights as those in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.
He might have a bit of a stumbling block around that whole "sovereign nations with their own legal systems" bit, or, for that matter, anyone who notices that holding up a production if you don't like being overdubbed is precisely the sort of right that gives New Zealand actors some competitive advantages.
(Or, for that matter, anyone who's clear-headed enough to notice that flying to the arse-end of the world is a hell of an inconvenience, and you'd better have something to make it worthwhile.)
I still think there's going to be some blowback towards Warners after this is all over
What makes you think Warners give a shit? The blowback on the CTU, on the other hand, with what looks for all the world like support for a ham-fisted "Winter of Discontent" style of unionism, is most likely to going to give their opponents a huge stockpile of ammo on crucial battles like 90 day dismissal, as well as state sector awards and the like.
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I think the saddest part of that whole thread are the people who believe that the international unions will back them.
I bet the Irish actors' union are falling over themselves to nick the work. "100-150 English-speaking unions" indeed.
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It's not some elitist judgement, rather pointing out the rather curious choices JWL has made.
I certainly don't disagree with that point - indeed, it's one I made earlier in a more roundabout way.
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(3) is incoherent for independent contractors. It also clearly seeks to make the production a closed union shop.
Which is an interesting goal; if I'm reading the numbers presented here, AE can muster the confidence of less than a tenth of the working actors in New Zealand. One wonders whether it's as much about muscling the 90% they can't persuade to join to pay dues in some other way...
(Also, while I'm pleased that mandatory access for unions to employees is part of the legal landscape in New Zealand, I am most displeased by the notion AE are pushing that you have to join a union to be allowed to get a job. I doubt many supporters of the CTU would be thrilled if employers started demanding employees started joining and paying money to National Party affiliated organisations. Freedom of association cuts both ways...)
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And that from someone who's husband makes in NZ soft-core porn for the US trailer trash market.
Whether or not one likes Mr Tappert's shows or not, he's been pumping money into a business that has been employing Kiwi actors and crews for the better part of a couple of decades now. I don't have a lot of patience with people who want to pretend Peter Jackson has made no contribution to New Zealand's film industry because he doesn't make films they personally approve of, and I can't say it impresses me when directed at Tappert's work.
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Oil and gas money, as well as farming money contribute a great deal to my home province,
You mean massively polluting, hugely subsidised and unsustainable industries?
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but we support an industry which is built on job insecurity low wages and long hours.
That would be why an international audience were in Wellington earlier this year to listen to Weta's experts speak on the topic of datacentre management.
Brendon, you don't know anything about contractin, you obviously don't know much about Jackson's industry.