A Year in Review

A Year in Review: "The membership, Executive Board and officers of Local 784 were faced with challenges and set some very high goals for 2009. The contracts with our three largest employers were up for renegotiation. Also, our rate sheet – the Green Sheet – expired at the end of 2008, and with stricter legal restrictions on benefit funds as well as the desire for real agreements with real protection for workers and the union, we sent our standard agreement to our long term non‐signatory employers and opened negotiations for term agreements. We were faced with obstacles on all fronts. The economic downturn made our current employers reluctant to make improvements to our contracts – some even wanted rollbacks. And many of our non‐signatory employers didn’t want to open negotiations for what some of them considered to be just a few days of employment per year. The leadership of Local 784 worked with our counterparts at other locals in the Bay Area as well as officers from other wardrobe and motion picture locals across the country, representatives in the New York and Los Angeles offices of the IATSE and various International Representatives. We set out to do the work and succeeded to various degrees."