So You Want to Learn about Fi-Core?
About Fi-Core Central
Fi-Core Central provides impartial, objective information about financial core status, geared specifically for the screen actor.
Fi-Core Central aims to be the ultimate factual resource for screen actors about financial core status — to help you decide what’s right for you as an actor. This website’s ebook, The Fi-Core Workbook, has been mentioned on NYCastings.
Many labor unions impose rules on their members. Some labor unions impose rules that prohibit their members from working non-union jobs.
Financial core status — also known as “fi-core” status — is a right backed by Supreme Court of the United States.
The fi-core right allows a worker who is eligible to work on union jobs to merely pay the union certain fees in order to work union jobs.
As a result, the worker does not to have join the union as a “member” in order to work union jobs. The worker can join as a “non-member” of the union instead, and thereby work union jobs.
The fi-core right means these workers do not have to obey union rules in order to work union jobs. They can disregard member rules that prohibit them from working on non-union jobs.
Effectively, for an actor, when you “go fi-core,” you are able to work both union and non-union acting jobs.
If you have ever heard people talk about fi-core status, unfortunately there is often a lot of wrong information, bias, and opinion — for and against it.
The groundbreaking ebook, The Fi-Core Workbook, is designed to help actors cut through the misinformation and opinion about fi-core in order to clearly decide whether to declare financial core status for themselves.
With over 25 chapters divided into 3 parts, The Fi-Core Workbook dives deeply into financial core status. It shares almost every angle you can think of on fi-core, delivering page after page of valuable information on the topic, compiled over a decade of careful study.
The workbook does’t take a side on whether you should go fi-core. Instead, the workbook aims to provide authoritative, factual information to help you make a right decision for yourself.
Should you decide to go fi-core, The Fi-Core Workbook also provides guidance on what to do afterwards, as well as how to defend your rights as a fi-core actor should you need to do so.
The Fi-Core Workbook is available for immediate download only on Fi-Core Central.
At Fi-Core Central, we offer phone consultations, allowing you to ask questions about financial core status or even very specific questions about your unique situation.
You can get impartial, objective answers to your fi-core questions directly over the phone.
(Phone consultations are not available to residents of the State of California.)
To supplement your reading of The Fi-Core Workbook, we’ve consolidated a lot of the scattered online information about financial core status.
Our Additional Resources pages links to some interesting and important webpages for further information on fi-core.