On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> wrote:
On Sep 14, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
Tech had a person managing the feed to DragonCon from the dedicated room w/ the polycomm video conference system, for panels, in addition to the actual union operator of the camera & such.
The camera ops had to be union? Hmmm. Ah, Chicago. Yes.
That has been true everywhere that Worldcon has been for a number of years, excluding Japan. Hotel union contracts generally forbid activity being done by any non-union people, even if they are the guests.
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