Last weekend, tens of thousands of members of the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. With 89.66% of eligible members participating and 98% voting to authorize the strike, the vote could lead 60,000 workers to walk off the job and bring the entertainment industry to a halt. As consumers, we tend to associate the entertainment industry with acting stars, elite directors and producers, and big studio executives, but hundreds and and even thousands of workers make every production possible, and many of them are grossly underpaid, overworked, and denied basic necessities like breaks and time to sleep between shifts. Combined with the explosion of streaming services and ever-increasing demands for studio-quality productions, workers in the entertainment industry are being run into the ground, and they have reached a breaking point.
IATSE represents over 150,000 technicians, artisans, and craftspersons in the entertainment industry, including live theatre, motion picture and television production, broadcast, and trade shows in the United States and Canada. The union is composed of many different locals, not all of which are currently voting to authorize a strike. According to Deadline, “there are actually two separate strike authorization votes going on—one among the union’s 13 Hollywood production locals covered by the Basic Agreement, and the other covering 23 different locals outside Los Angeles who work under the Area Standards Agreement.” In this special Working People episode, recorded on Oct. 1, while the strike authorization vote was taking place, we talk to a panel of IATSE members and hear firsthand about the work they do, the unfair working conditions they’re fighting against, and the significance of the strike vote. Panelists include Marisa Shipley (Local 871), David McMahon (Local 52), and Fae Weichsel (Local 600).
Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/iatse-members-vote-to-authorize-historic-entertainment-industry-strike%ef%bb%bf
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Lol they and them are plural indications of a group of people, stop trying to redefine the English language for your own means. Be proud of yourself and stop trying to make others accept you.
The video is borked by the way.
What is wrong with you people. Boys are boys, girls are girls
Workers unite! There IS strength in numbers! National Strike is October 15th!
The film industry must be democratized, its the biggest beacon/amplifier of capitalism
Good luck to IATSE. Hope this is an opportunity to put more dialog into deeper internal issues. For instance, why are there so few Black folks in the union? I'm jus' sayin'.
As a member of New York City local one and West Michigan local 26 IATSE
I thank you for spotlighting our struggle. Thank you to the members who are speaking on our behalf.
I have been speaking out against our hours 4 years.
I am very excited that our International is taking this bull by the horns. This is going to be a battle internally because a lot of rank-and-file make their money with overtime. Those members are always the biggest opponent 2 hour restrictions.
Peace and solidarity!
You lost me at pronouns
If you Want To Go Fast
GO ALONE.
If you Want To Go Far
GO TOGETHER.
Solidarity to you guys Going on strike is never an easy decision considering that workers bills don't go away
I stand with IATSE.
I am a member in good standing retired from American and British Actor's Equity and SAG-AFTRA.
Stopped watching Ho'wood sht over 20years ago. The Pentagon/CIA runs it and is screwing over the plots and storylines, the creators and the labor there.
We must stand with ALL EMPLOYEEs in this Kapitalist Kraphole of a country.
My pronouns are "your majesty" "his majesty"
Stupid
So much pressure on the workers. When will they UNITE to FIGHT these greedy actors which are not different from eachother. In history, all changes around the world are always done by the might people have. They showed up and fought together, regardless what specific worldview they had. The issue, the demand united them and made them the strong force they always had! UNITE and FIGHT TOGETHER!
i don't even watch movies, freemasons tricking us through these screens.
I hope you get the pay and benefits you deserve. You’ll get sick working at your present pace if limits aren’t put in place soon.
People, us, you, me, we hold the power to make change. We make the world go round and we have the power to stop it as well. They can't do it with out us.
Solidarity from a retired Local 80 Grip.
I've never understood how the ppl that make businesses & companies what they are never get the pay or respect they deserve! You had an idea, great, but they made it come to life and turned it into the masterpiece you see today, that was the workers.
These terrible working conditions are all too familiar and exactly the same for us out here working public jobs. No lunch break on a 10+hr work day, 60+hr work week, unsafe not maintained work vehicle, favoring other employees, using an unfair seniority system, working 8 days straight before your 1 day off cause they just can't seem to figure out how you can have 2 days off consecutively like everyone else employed there, forced to work late to turn around and work you early the next day knowing you're the only one that lives an hour away and everyone else it right around the corners or 5 mins away, there's so much more I could go on and on like no schedule in advance or week ahead but instead the very last minute on the last day of the work week which is oddly on a tuesday and only a few hours before you get done with your shift which is the late shift of course cause seniority gets the best shifts and we can't have them switching up at all not for nothing cause they can't be disturbed or have their lives interrupted, all that gets covered by the newbies even if you've been there 2 yrs now. I am so mad at this place but it pays the bills and they know it!🤬😡🤬😡🤬
TYT announced tonight they've joined IATSE Union. Power in numbers!!!
Come to Jesus
Hiring went from jobs to human resources and it all went downhill from there. I was Barbara Streisand's security guard at West Point when My Fair Lady was being filmed. That killed all desire for making movies in me. Being a paratrooper was a breeze after witnessing that insanity. "Dreams can be nightmare". Oh yeah! And that's when movies were tame, I can't imagine what it's like these days.