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- From: dougb@comm.mot.com (Doug Bank)
- Subject: Re: SigGraph, Chicago, and Unions
- Reply-To: dougb@ecs.comm.mot.com
- Organization: Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:14:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.181436.25575@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
- References: <1992Aug14.015500.25529@cmcl2.nyu.edu> <hersh.714074256@xenon.lcs.mit.edu>
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- In article <hersh.714074256@xenon.lcs.mit.edu>, hersh@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Jay Hersh) writes:
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- |> I don't know about other portions of the conference (though I've heard horror
- |> stories of $700 slide projector rental costs since an Electrician was
- |> required to plug it in, and an operator to run it), but it is clear from
- |> these 2 examples alone that Union wages in Chicago are higher for comparable
- |> services in other not-necessarily union towns as Boston or Las Vegas,
- |> and that the work rules were substantially less flexible.
- |>
- |> I would expect things will have to change substantially before SIGGRAPH
- |> goes back to Chicago as my hearsay understanding of the impression of those
- |> involved was that people were generally unhappy with certain portions of the
- |> conference (such as I mentioned above), and that much of this was a factor
- |> of inflexible work rules and union costs.
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- This is not a problem with Chicago. This IS a problem with McCormick place. The
- unions there are going to drive all the conventions away from this town. They
- don't seem to realize that a parasite eventually kills the host.....
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