Hollywood Reporter: Fashion Star” producers and IATSE officials reached a deal Tuesday night that has ended a strike against the show and will bring crew members pension and health benefits. The agreement came after a meeting that began Tuesday afternoon, and after several days of picketing that began on Saturday.
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Consider the amount, quantity, dangers of the job, It is no doubt that crew member and other theater person need to be issued in an different way. but giving them a special issurance is just a beginning of all the measures that we should do for them. the most important and practical problem is how much we should pay for the health-risk job. for example, people works in Ukraine get paid because of the remaining of the nuclear problem, but they only get 70 dollars per month, which is really ridiculous.
For a second I thought that was a fast turn around and prediction until I looked at the date. It didnt seem like this should have been much of a struggle to finally find terms of agreement. This does go to show that unions have a lot of power, possibly too much, but they can get what they want/need for their workers. Hopefully IA and Fashion Star will not disagree or have any more walk outs in the future.
Wow, such a rash of reality television / IATSE skirmishes lately. This is the challenge with IATSE negotiating an agreement with each union employer independently - with no public baseline for the negotiation, there's a lot of reinventing the wheel that has to happen between the union and the employer. Especially on reality TV where there are no other unions present (SAG-AFTRA may show up for the host and judges, but not for the contestants themselves), it's really up to the union and the producers to find an amicable agreement almost in a vacuum. Perhaps a boilerplate reality contract, or even just guidelines, would save everyone (both sides) some headache.
I also just want to address AJ's comment that striking gives unions power. While it may appear that negotiating until a strike happens is the union standing up for its principles, the strike itself takes a toll on the employees - both financially and emotionally. I really hope IATSE doesn't consider itself as "the union that has teeth" or "the union that strikes" - striking is a costly process for everyone involved, and ideally, should only be a last resort if the fundamental issues of the negotiation cannot be resolved. You just cause both employees and producers to lose money and delay the production schedule.
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