Re: What are a programmer's rights to what he writes?

["System Support Products, Inc." <lforlini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 5:08 PM -0400 5/26/00, MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:
[snip]
>I heard a union story out of Australia ... is this urban legend ... computer
>workers there are unionized ... programmer union worker cannot change the
>paper in a printer because that is the computer operator union job.

Al,

    Did some work for a shop right here in the good ol' USA where this 
was the case.  Programmers couldn't mount tapes or do anything in the 
computer room (OK, the mounting tapes thing shows how long ago this 
was :)

    BTW, at this company the programmers were NOT unionized, only the 
operators.  The operators got shift differentials, time and a half 
overtime, etc.  Many times the programmers would work long hours and 
still only get their salary.

    Regards,

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.
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