Talk:Directors Guild of America

Legality

Isn't it illegal in the US for a labor union to demand a company only hires union members? What grants the Directors Guild the right to force companies to only use Guild Directors?69.14.85.112 04:13, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Many labor unions have contracts with companies, so that if a company wants to be able to hire workers who are part of the union, they have to agree to only hire union workers. The company isn't actually forced into it -- they have signed a contract whereby they agreed to do it. This is common and not at all limited to the Directors Guild.

Equazcion • argue/improves • 04:17, 10/11/2007

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NPOV paragraph issue: DGA "protects"?

This paragraph-- Other than wages and basic working condition the DGA has a particular role in protecting the creative rights of the film director. Such protections that the guild provides include defining the director's role, guarding the key concept of "one director to a picture" and the right to prepare a director's cut or edit. Generally each of these protections is to help offset the power that producers can have over a director during the filmmaking process.

--via its use of the words "protecting" and "protections" is a POV endorsement of DGA, especially considering the recent Brian de Palma issue with his film, Redacted, viz.: "De Palma lost rights to the film's final cut in recent arbitration with the Directors Guild of America." Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN1846489220071019?feedType=RSS&feedName=entertainmentNews&rpc=22&sp=true

I don't know how best this paragraph should be revised, but it's obvious to me that it ought to be. --76.83.249.234 21:14, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

It's not POV because the fundamental function of labor unions is to provide protection for employees. It may not work sometimes, and there are many things that labor unions don't or can't protect the employee from, but that doesn't make it any less of a protective function.

If you're citing this example to mean that the DGA doesn't actually provide the protections the article is claiming: "Final cut" and "Director's cut" are two different things. The final cut is the version that gets the (initial) theatrical release. Directors have limited control over those, even though the film is generally the result of their own vision -- the producers are still the bosses, and can force a change in the final cut if they choose to. They're the ones who've arranged and financed the distribution for a theatrical release, so they get to decide what they want their final product to look like. This is different from a director's cut, which is the director's own responsibility, and which the union protects his rights to.

Equazcion • argue/improves • 00:04, 10/21/2007

We could get into a lengthy discussion about the nature of rights, but it would be pointless. You claim that the function of labor unions is such protection, unfortunately we can't cite you as a source. If we can find a source that says something along those lines, then the paragraph should read "it is claimed that" such protections are offered by these unions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.83.249.234 (talk) 22:06, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

The way I see it, the fact that labor unions exist to provide protection for employees is common knowledge. What would you say is the purpose of labor unions then?

Equazcion • argue/improves • 22:27, 10/21/2007

I also find this wording POV. Equazcion, I don't mean to cause offence, but I find the preceding comment rather naive, see Trade_unionism#Criticism. Godzuki 16:28, 5 November 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Godzuki (talk • contribs)

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