Name: How Rough Is A NYC Union Negotiation? This Rough!
Uploaded: 2020-04-06T08:27:28.000Z
Duration: 8 min 15 s
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I'm David Hoffman, filmmaker, and I'm about to show you a clip from a documentary film I made as a young guy back in 1965 in New York City, involved with union negotiations.

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So many of my subscribers have seen this clip from the documentary before and have asked me, How could you do this?

16 millimeter, very heavy camera with a wire connected to the sound audio recorder, a Nagra £26 a boom mic, one bull Mike and 1 12 to 1 20 millimeter zoom lens.

A local union negotiation between I think, the City of New York on the Union, but you guys around the room smoking cigarettes like crazy.

But at that time we will breathe in that stuff, and I say to them guys, you've got to make this real.

Documentaries are riel, and yet you don't film reality.

You got a stage reality, so why would you to create live here right now.

So in answer to your questions, that's how this was shot.

Of course, people in front of the camera always know that the cameras there, that's one of my strong views towards documentaries.

There's just a reality created by people with a camera president trying to show what life is like for them negotiating this garbage contract.

And the people, well, they're rough then New Yorkers.

There are a lot of New Yorkers still like that.

They're the people I grew up with, the people I knew at the moment they didn't seem all that rough to me.

But now that I've traveled the world and lived so many places, I guess they are.

You know, I Any equipment in the park department would be in fire three and shops are out in the field.

The truck belongs to the motor vehicle operate instead.

That's their title in the city of New York To drive all equipment for the city of New York, you have a man get $15,000 driving a vehicle, which is out of title, and a man is sitting down $7000.

Put in motor vehicle operator on that truck for $7000 writing to have a man.

$13,000 riding behind the wheel of a truck driving a truck.

Everything goes way higher, fire cemented, drive to try trust or that we have more way.

That's you are a type of station of a crew service.

I've taken show you were struck down in its £20,000.

That's a motor vehicle, operated a responsibility to a city street is, and you have to have professional man behind out.

Let's get back to me, is not a you're not a city.

But I put a stop before the partner price.

Now, three years ago, when I went to a meeting and she told me that she was gonna look into this.

Go around New York and see what's being done in a lot of a lot because of lack of coverage.

And you've got your labors that belongs playground driving vehicles all over the city.

It's a beautiful productivity back in city both.

I want Mrs Driving in city whole double of the M V O guys.

And they sit on their s much better cause they got bigger ball, right?

First of all, as I said before, you don't have it in your contract.

Every time you commit the negotiations, you want that provisioning and the city will not agree to it.

You've got sanitation plant against the wall, not getting anything that plane against the wall.

You got free labor that should be in different parts.

And you've got running around a city doing nothing short of the store.

Point efficiency and productivity works both ways.

Some of the most inefficient practices come from you guys.

I don't have to tell you about the high court's drivers.

It seems to me we want to get one house in order.

If you don't want him sitting on his dust.

We don't want a 13,000 $12,000 a year man driving the vehicle.

Maybe efficiency from your side can match efficiency from outside.

No, let's go a little further than that on somebody.

We only have a few win videos and they drive a commissioner or maybe a deputy majority of the time.

He's just sitting in the office and when he sits in New York, but he don't sit by himself.

He's sitting and he talks to somebody else, so I don't have just one person doing nothing.

I end up with two people doing nothing you say.

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