Guild members describe grueling working conditions: 'We are not breaking for lunch for 16-, 17-hour days.'
The vote, which began on Friday and concludes today, asks members — including cinematographers, camera operators, picture and sound editors, hair stylists, makeup artists and script coordinators — for authorization to call a strike should the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees decide it is the best course of action in its negotiations with the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which have so far failed to produce a new three-year basic agreement for the 13...
“We have never seen this level of enthusiasm or unity from all of these locals together,” said Local 600 national president John Lindley of the union solidarity he has observed going into the vote. Related one Local 800 member who requested anonymity, “The last few shows I have worked on have been new media deals. [There are] varying contracts, but you get offered way less money to work on just as big a show. I have worked on shows where I have worked 100 days in a row without a day off. There’s not the work-life balance that that we have had in this industry any longer.”
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