Thursday, November 16, 2023
Film and TV production assistants are unionizing—and ready to fight
therealnews.com: We won’t grasp all the repercussions of 2023’s ‘Hot Labor Summer’ for years to come, but one place where the effects are already being noted is Hollywood. Building on the momentum of the newly-chartered IATSE Local 111, which represents thousands of commercial production workers across the country, production assistants in the Film and TV sector are coming together to fight back against exploitative working conditions in the industry.
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I’m a big supporter of unions and unionizing, and I’m glad that with these better deals that are coming out of Hollywood we’re seeing more and more groups fight for better wages and fairer working conditions, as well as a whole slew of creative and healthcare benefits. The entire summer of 2023 was filled with both unionizing and union protests, and I think the entire creative industry is going to see the benefits provided by those protests for years to come. Production assistants are unionizing as well now, and so hopefully within a couple years we’ll see the overwhelming majority of workers on movies able to fight for better wages and working conditions. The show “The shark is broken” on Broadway weirdly made me aware of what some of these workers have to go through in order to produce a movie, and I’m glad that they’re standing up for their rights.
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