Comments on: Vancouver councillor calls for more VFX unionisation http://www.cgchannel.com/2010/12/vancouver-councillor-calls-for-unionisation-of-vfx-artists/ Community for Entertainment Artists Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:06:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: annon http://www.cgchannel.com/2010/12/vancouver-councillor-calls-for-unionisation-of-vfx-artists/#comment-9467 annon Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:50:46 +0000 http://www.cgchannel.com/?p=17085#comment-9467 response to Meatpuppet.
That’s the line you have been fed, Is there any evidence that companies will leave Vancouver?
In the United States your goverment is gleefully sending jobs overseas. In Canada we the poeple work to keep them here.

The film industry in Vancouver is strong. and very union. 30 crews, skilled union are making films every day here.

We stand together or not at all.

You can work now to create a better, sustainable, skilled, fair paid industry. Or at 40 you can start all over again in another carreer. dust off your hands and

it’s your choice. we need you man, we need everyone to get togother and demand fair working conditions.

]]> By: Meat Puppet http://www.cgchannel.com/2010/12/vancouver-councillor-calls-for-unionisation-of-vfx-artists/#comment-9465 Meat Puppet Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:09:55 +0000 http://www.cgchannel.com/?p=17085#comment-9465 Oh don’t worry it wont be long before those companies open up shop in singapore or some other place where you can buy a wage slave for a nickel a day like George did. It was mentioned that a warehouse worker gets benefits. And a VFX person dosn’t. That’s because there is a physical tie to the service being provided at that warehouse, Big machinery providing a service or some sort usually turning a local natural resource into a form of goods. The Vfx industry is as mobile as you can get as an industry there is no need for a factory and the goods are the still frames being produced. If the people are the resources being used to create the images why not get the cheapest people you can, and train them on the software? Oh I’m sorry did you think your special? Did you think you were the only one who can use maya? It’s called business and I fear that vancouver will see a mass exodus of companies and studios leaving the area. Is it Immoral? yes, is it unethical ? yes … it is business? Yes!

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