Workers in the 150,000-member Hollywood crafts union are frustrated with low pay and marathon workdays that are no longer viewed as a 'badge of honor,' while asking for stricter penalties for missed meal breaks and greater compensation for streaming projects.
If IATSE members do vote to authorize a strike, it could impact a number of unionized film and TV projects on the West Coast and nationally at a moment when production in Los Angeles and New York has finally rebounded to pre-pandemic levels.
“I really thought when we went back to work this year that things would be different,” Arnold says. “And then, very quickly, I’m working 16-hour days. I worked a 20-hour day a few weeks ago.” Bill Wolkoff — a writer-producer and member of Local 839 and former writers assistant and script coordinator — notes that he came up on wages that were “not livable.” “If a strike were to happen even over that issue alone, and if it were to disrupt my life, I personally am willing to support [it],” he says, adding, “We need to make access more equitable and inclusive for people who don’t come from privileged backgrounds.
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