I am an IATSE card carrying member, friend. I can assure you that while what you are saying is true, the idea that it is isolated to one area is false. Hollywood unions have “Locals” which are situated in major cities all over the country. It doesn’t all happen in LA. What you are describing is our contract structure. You are literally describing the “basic agreement”. Any production that films a certain amount of miles away from that Local’s union hall is responsible for hotel costs. They apply it in Georgia, New Mexico, Las Vegas, New York, Chicago, etc. This is a country wide deal friend. So you’re suggesting that Sopranos was shot in LA? I suppose all of the years of work I did in Steiner, Silvercup, Kaufman, York, Gold Coast, Grumman, and Broadway Stages, were all an illusion and I was really in LA when I was working? All my paystubs, that’s all bullshit? Lots of productions moved to New York to take advantage of our outrageous film tax credit: to save money. What are you trying to win here? I don’t disagree that the higher ups are corrupt and something needs to be done.