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                      NEXT MEETING
            TECHNICAL WRITERS TRADE GROUP (NWU)

Date: Wednesday December 6, 7:30pm
Place: Home of Bruce Hartford
Address: 2301 Harrison St., #205, San Francisco (at the corner of
19th St.)  Call 510/839-6092 for directions/information.

Non-Members welcome. 
           
                   TECHNICAL WRITERS JOB HOTLINE

The technical writers job hotline of the National Writers Union 
lists many San Francisco Bay Area tech writing jobs (contract
and staff). We are currently listing 14 contract and 8 staff
jobs. 

To hear a FREE description of these jobs, call (415) 979-5522.

The job bank is a non-profit cooperative effort organized by 
working technical writers who are members of the National Writers 
Union. Employers list their contract job openings on the hotline
for free. When union members are interested in a job, our coordinator 
gives them the employer's name and contact information. Then the 
member negotiates directly with the employer. The union does not act 
as a middle man or broker. The union plays no role in the contract or 
terms agreed to between the writer and the employer. When members get 
a job through a hotline lead, they pay a finders fee of 10% of the 
first four months income to keep the hotline operating. (Compare that 
to brokers who usually take a third of what the employer pays for the 
life of the contract.) 

You must be an NWU member to obtain the contact information about 
a job listed on the hotline. We are the trade union covering 
all working writers (journalists, book authors, poets, technical 
and practical writers, etc.) except for those represented by the 
Newspaper, Screenwriters, or Dramatists Guilds. In addition to 
the job bank, the union provides many other services including 
union health plan, career networking, publishers and agents 
databases, and grievance handling (we've recovered more than
$850,000 owed to writers by publishers). We are a national union 
with locals in 13 cities across the country. We have been in
existence for 11 years and we are affiliated with the UAW and
AFL/CIO. Union dues are on a sliding scale based on your writing 
income, from a low of $45 for 6 months to a high of $180 per year. 

For membership information, or to speak with Kenya Briggs, the 
hotline coordinator, call: (510) 839-6092.

National Writers Union, Local-3
337  17th St. #101
Oakland, CA 94612
Hotline Office: 510-839-6092
Hotline Listings (free) 415-979-5522
Fax: 510-839-6097 
E-mail: nwu3@well.com