Thursday, October 07, 2021
IATSE Members Teamed to Pay $70,000 in Back Dues
TheWrap: The overwhelming approval by IATSE members to authorize a strike came after months of grassroots organizing, creating a network of Hollywood workers so tightly knit that they raised $70,000 to help cover dues payments for members who had fallen behind due to the pandemic shutdown of production.
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This really warms my heart to hear. Unions are so incredibly important to every labor market and to hear that people within the union have decided to help members who are behind in their dues pay gives me a little glimmer of hope that is pretty consistently crushed by the 24 hour news cycle. This news makes our career choice a much more community supported one. I don’t feel like it will be a dog eat dog kind of culture when I hear stories like this. It gives me hope. It makes me feel like people will have my back and I will have theirs, which is a feeling I have not had in a long time. Unions in general have been kind of under attack for a few years now with politicians claiming that they are good for nothing and will only harm the laborer, which is obviously untrue. So it makes me glad when I see people continuing in the long tradition of American unions.
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