Quote from: Jelly Soup on May 31, 2011, 03:01:14 PMQuote from: aarondirebear on May 31, 2011, 02:58:46 PMQuote from: Jelly Soup on May 30, 2011, 02:02:47 AM
What a lot of people don't realize about the dealers room is that the dealers have to pay a more than just the space fees and transportation costs. SJCC has a union and if a given dealer is bringing in more than he/she can carry themselves, he/she has to pay the union to do all the moving, both in and out (this is actually listed in the dealers paper work). As you can imagine, this is pretty expensive, so it makes sense that we'd see some gouging of some kind.
Then we need to move this con to a non-union place. Or stop those proprietary mafia thugs from messing with the dealers.
Good luck with that. Any convention center (specifically convention centers, not sure of other lodgings) of equal or greater size will have union workers on staff and require patrons to use them.
Well, that's a rotten state of affairs that needs to change. What a bunch of bullies.