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Everyone is always talking about SLEEP

1/23/2014

 
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Every day you hear on TV and radio the subject of sleep deprivation. Listen to Larry Mantle on the popular show AirTalk talk about the “TV and film industry.” He suggests as a cure a new electronic device that will give you a warning before you fall asleep. 

Writing to 12on12off, a camerawoman said to keep her from falling asleep at the wheel, she would put her hair outside the window, roll it up, and hopefully that would warn her she was falling asleep.

Long hair and electronic devices are not the answer to driving while sleep deprived. 

Who is asking the question of why we must risk our lives? The I.A.T.S.E., in a unanimous decision, links sleep deprivation and fatigue to critical safety and health hazards. 

The organization 12on12off is asking Producers and Production Managers not to schedule more than 12 hours on Friday, March 21st . No Fraturday please. 
Andrew Davidson
1/25/2014 07:37:02 am

It's time to stop talking and start criminal prosecution of producers for safety health violations. If the unions involved are so embroiled in the bureaucracy that they can't grasp the importance of these issues they need to get out of the way. The members need to force these issues from the shop floor. How many more will die as the result of the glacial pace of negotiation? The producers are negotiating with capital only while we are negotiating with our very lives. Perhaps we should visit our fellow workers families and explain to their children how our lack of progress on this one issue justifies there loved ones pain or premature death!


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