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The Hardline / Re: IATSE house
« on: Dec 18, 2008, 06:01 pm »
You can "take the job" of the stagehand, but they must still be hired and present for the shows.
But please confirm with your local BA.
From my experiance it is the displaced worker language in the contract that you are going to run into a problem with. Just a tip never say "take their job" or "shadow" or "dude sitting in a chair" but use the term "displaced" when dealing with this situation. In most contracts you can technically not have IA guys do any work as long as there is someone present from IA who could do the job. For example if I want to bring in a monitor engineer for a show who is not IA then I have to have an IA guy somewhere in the building who could be doing that job and who is on the clock. In your situation the performers should be able to take the items off stage and move them around as long as there are an equal number of IA guys or gals backstage in the proper department who are not currently doing anthing and could perform that action during that time in the show with no problems. But check with the BA and the steward.