i truly think that an israeli sound engineer s union is not the right thing to do - especialy in thease days where economy is crazy

part of being a proffional freelancer is choosing your own price and your own terms.
if someone charges a low price -it doesnt mean he is a HAPPER it just means he is willing to work for less money- and in thease days every money is a belssing to us all.
so you can be a good engineer that takes more then a better engineer but it doesnt matter- being a freelance means being free with no rules on how much to take and who to work with .
most sound engineers are freelances except ones that work in a specific studios

so choosing how much minium money they can get is not relvient
becuase then you have to give grades and price grades- so people will choose the engineers based on there resume and from the union grades not on free will
somtimes the small inexperianced engineer will give more time and effort to the project then well experianced engineer

its not about how good you are- its about how you fit the project- pricewise and expertwise and the effort you put in it.

todays young generation of new sound engineers might grow to be tommorows experts

so give them the respect- if they do it good - great!
if they fail - its there game they play


everbody started at different times and grew in different way
some got known becuase they went into the well known scene- some went to other scenes and grew

every body has a different path - its starts with the same ideas but not the same places,knoledge,experiance and results

sorry for sounding so dark on the subject- but i truly feel that this cant happen in israel
in the next 5 years or so

to build and organization you need to start from the smallest part and the common denominator

and that is still spread far

AES is more a technical organization- most sound engineers in the world are not even apart of it.


but i do think its good that people are at least thinking about the subject it might happen in some years to come