RECOGNITION AND GUILD SHOP a. On any Picture on which Employer employs two Second Assistant Directors plus either an Additional Second Assistant Director or a DGA Trainee, persons not covered by the BA may perform Second Assistant Director duties. All other provisions of Article 1 of the BA shall apply.
b. The DGA agrees to make appropriate accommodations in its initiation fees in recognition of the economics of this type of production.
RECOGNITION AND GUILD SHOP. 1-100 RECOGNITION AND GUILD SHOP 1-101 RECOGNITION The Producer recognizes the Guild as the sole bargaining representative of all Directors, Unit Production Managers, First Assistant Directors, and Second Assistant Directors (hereinafter referred to as “Employees”) working in the production of television commercials now or hereinafter employed by the Producer.
1- 102 GUILD SHOP
(A) The Producer shall employ in all positions covered by this Agreement and maintain in its employ in such positions members of the Guild or persons as shall make applications for membership in the Guild within thirty (30) days after the date of hiring, unless a shorter period is permitted by applicable law. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary any Director or any person performing the duties of a Director employed by the Producer during the term of this Agreement shall be a member of the Directors Guild of America or shall make application for membership within forty-eight (48) hours of employment by the Producer. Provided, however, that nothing in this Article shall be construed to require the Producer to cease employing or refrain from employing any such person if the Producer has reasonable grounds for believing that:
i. Membership in the Guild was not available to him/her on the same terms and conditions generally applicable to other members or applicants; or
ii. Membership in the Guild was denied or terminated for reasons other than his/her failure to tender the periodic dues and the initiation fees uniformly required by the Guild as a condition of acquiring or retaining membership. The term ‘member of the Guild’ means a person who offers to pay (and if the Guild accepts the offer, pays) union initiation fees and dues as financial obligations in accordance with the requirements of applicable law.
(B) The parties agree that whenever a Producer engages any person not a member of the Guild, it shall be the duty of the Producer to notify the Guild in writing within forty-eight (48) hours of the Producer’s intention to engage such person. In the event that the Guild shall in writing inform the Producer that such person had previously been engaged for at least thirty (30) days (unless a shorter period is permitted by applicable law) as a Director, Unit Production Manager or Assistant Director, then the Producer thereupon shall agree that such person shall immediately become a member of the Guild. Such statement from the Guild shall be deemed final with respect ...
RECOGNITION AND GUILD SHOP. Section 1- 100 RECOGNITION 1-101 Recognition
RECOGNITION AND GUILD SHOP. Notwithstanding the Guild Shop provisions set forth in Paragraph 1-401 of the Basic Agreement, an individual engaged as the Director of a Derivative New Media Production shall not be required to become a “member of the Guild in good standing” until he or she completes production of 120 total minutes of programming, as edited for exhibition. The 120 minutes of programming applies per Director, regardless of the number of Employers for which the Director works. The above provision applies only to Directors who are not, and have not previously been, members of the DGA and only to work performed on covered New Media productions.
