Common use of GENERAL NORTHEAST CORRIDOR CONDITIONS Clause in Contracts

GENERAL NORTHEAST CORRIDOR CONDITIONS. (a) Members of Local 600 shall not be permitted to work or give service to any Employer other than the Employer by whom s/he is directly employed. A member’s service shall not be subleased, nor shall any cameraperson perform services for any other than his/her direct Employer. (b) No member of Local 600 shall be required to do the work of any other organized craft in the industry. (c) The Employer will give local 600 reasonable notice on all calls unless the call is made directly to the camera person. (d) A cameraperson called in for consultation, supervision, and preparation for lighting, selecting locations, or checking equipment prior to actual shooting or leaving on a trip shall be compensated at the prevailing wage scale for his/her respective classification. (e) All camerapersons reporting after being called to work, or camerapersons required to work part of a day or night, shall be paid a minimum of one day’s pay. (f) The Employer must notify an employee six hours after call time if his services are required for the following work day. When such notice is not given, the call shall be considered in effect and binding on the Employer to pay for same. Once a cameraperson begins a call, there can be no cancellation of any part thereof. The Employer has the right to give the following day’s call at the end of the work day. The Employer can postpone or cancel a call before its commencement by giving notice not later than 2:30 p.m. on the day before the call starts, provided the day before is not a work day. When such notice is not given, the call shall be considered in effect and binding on the Employer to pay for same. (g) Camerapersons and assistants shall not be required to handle or aid in the operation of more than one standard camera on any production, and in no event shall there be in operation or in use simultaneously an additional standard camera unless an additional crew is assigned to each additional camera. Assistant camerapersons shall handle and aid in the operation of all motion picture cameras and equipment, including slates and clap sticks but shall never be permitted to operate a camera alone at any time. (h) If an extra production unit is used or required, there must be a full photographic crew on same. However, it is understood that only one Director of Photography is required in those instances where more than one camera is photographing the same set. (i) Operation of still cameras shall be performed only by still camerapersons represented by Local 600. (j) On composite process photography, backgrounds including plates with or without doubles (doubles not to be part of the cast), the minimum crew shall consist of a Director of Photography and a First Assistant Cameraperson (Camera Operator optional). (k) On television commercials, the minimum crew shall be a Director of Photography and a First Assistant Cameraperson (Camera Operator optional). (l) Where still photography of any kind is used in connection with a production, a still cameraperson shall be part of the crew. (m) Local 600 agrees that it will, upon signing of this Agreement, deliver to the Employer upon request a complete list in which it will specify by name the persons who are classified as Directors of Photography, Camera Operators, Still Photographers, and Camera Assistants. (n) The duly authorized Business Representative or other duly accredited representative of Local 600 shall be permitted to visit any portion of the studio necessary for the proper conduct of the business of the Local during working hours. (o) Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent any individual from negotiating and obtaining from the Employer better conditions and terms of employment than those herein provided. Provided also that the Employer, at its discretion, with or without Union consultation, may give any individual better conditions and terms than those herein provided. Employer will notify Union of the fact that it has executed any written personal service contract with any persons subject to this Agreement and will certify that such personal services contract conforms, at least, to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and that an extra copy of such has been furnished to the cameraperson. No such granting to any individual of better conditions and terms, if any, shall in any manner affect the conditions and terms herein provided, nor shall it be considered in any manner as a precedent for granting any other individual or job better conditions and terms than those herein provided. (p) At the end of each calendar quarter the Employer will submit a list of its camerapersons subject to this Agreement showing each cameraperson’s earnings for that quarter. In addition, the Employer will submit a record of payments to individuals employed hereunder, directly or indirectly, for rental of photographic equipment. (q) Contributions as above required shall be made to the Benefit Funds whether or not the Cameraperson engaged by the Employer is carried on its payroll as an employee.