3.0. What are you doing online? (Natl Writers Union)
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This article is from the Natl Writers Union FAQ, by Vicki Richman nwufaq@vicric.com with numerous contributions by others.
3.0. What are you doing online? (Natl Writers Union)
The 1998 Delegates Assembly voted not to actively attempt to
organize "computer programmers" into the National Writers
Union, unless they meet some other membership criterion.
Presumambly, "computer programmers" means code writers and
perhaps Web designers.
The motion was sponsored by the former and present chairs of
the New York local, who preferred that Union organizing
funds be spent only on authors and writers in traditional
human languages.
Writers need an unfettered Internet as much as professors,
students and other professionals do. The electronic media
are both tools and products to us. Some of us are on the
printed page. Some of us are on multimedia disks or on the
Web. Some of us use words. Some of us write code.
We all need to protect the way we earn a living. The NWU
suite of online services adds to the protection the union
has provided since 1981, and it helps to organize the
unorganized -- electronic writers, code-writers,
online-forum moderators, multimedia artists, Web authors and
designers -- into our union of all creative workers using
the quill, pen or keyboard.
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