Comments on: Why I’m glad to be part of the union https://fionajoseph.com/why-im-proud-to-be-in-the-union/ Sun, 20 Mar 2016 16:10:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.27 By: Kathleen Dixon Donnelly https://fionajoseph.com/why-im-proud-to-be-in-the-union/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:04:02 +0000 http://fionajoseph.dev/?p=369#comment-19 Right on! Solidarity forever! I come from a long line of union organizers back in Pittburgh, so I am sympatico.
Now back to getting published…

]]> By: brenda https://fionajoseph.com/why-im-proud-to-be-in-the-union/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:17:20 +0000 http://fionajoseph.dev/?p=369#comment-18 Poor old George Loveless – doesn’t he look real fed up!

Nevertheless – back to the here and now – wanted to say thank YOU for brightening my day. B xxx

]]> By: Fiona https://fionajoseph.com/why-im-proud-to-be-in-the-union/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:26:29 +0000 http://fionajoseph.dev/?p=369#comment-17 Hi Paul, thanks for the comment. Yes, online piracy is one of the biggest threats to writers these days. I know from experience!

Thanks too, Richard, for mentioning the grants and prizes, and other professional opportunities. And yes, you’re right – it’s all about strength in numbers, and making a collective response to issues like, for example, the Google Settlement.

Glad to be of help, David. Drinks on you next time?!!

]]> By: David https://fionajoseph.com/why-im-proud-to-be-in-the-union/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:52:24 +0000 http://fionajoseph.dev/?p=369#comment-16 Thanks Fiona, I was totally unaware of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society. I just followed your link and discovered I’m owed some money! Who says you can’t make a living out of being an author?

]]> By: Richard https://fionajoseph.com/why-im-proud-to-be-in-the-union/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:59:10 +0000 http://fionajoseph.dev/?p=369#comment-15 Quite right, Fiona. There are other selfish reasons to belong, like the quarterly magazine that gives useful updates on grants and prizes, as well as a classified ads that can throw up interesting opportunities. Mostly, though, it’s in collective strength that the Society has its value. None of us, individually, would have much luck campaigning for PLR rates or protecting libraries. Together, we look like a threatening bunch of no-good home-workers, and stuff gets done.

]]> By: Paul https://fionajoseph.com/why-im-proud-to-be-in-the-union/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:36:21 +0000 http://fionajoseph.dev/?p=369#comment-14 Spot on Fiona! I couldn’t agree more about the need to join something bigger than you. Unionisation often tends to polarize opinion but I really think that people like writers are soooo isolated that there is an absolute need to have support from outside. This is even more the case these days as technology has thrown up many more ways in which writers can be ripped off, cheated, slandered etc etc.

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