Teamsters Local 399 Calls For Voluntary Recognition At 3 Hudson Pacific Companies: Quixote, Zio Studio Services & Star Waggons

14.12.2022 - 00:51 / deadline.com

Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 is calling on Hudson Pacific Properties to voluntarily recognize it as the bargaining representative of nearly 120 workers employed at Quixote, Zio Studio Services and Star Waggons.

Hudson Pacific Properties is a West Coast real estate firm that recently expanded its business into the motion picture industry. In 2021, it acquired Zio Studio Services and Star Waggons, where workers provide transportation and logistics services to studio productions. Earlier this year, Hudson Pacific also acquired Quixote Studios, which provides studio space, vehicles and equipment to film and TV productions.

Local 399 says these recent acquisitions and changes to business practices “have motivated workers from all three companies to seek union representation by Local 399.”

“First and foremost, we are proud of these workers and their resolve,” said Lindsay Dougherty, Local 399’s principal officer and director of the Teamsters Motion Picture and Theatrical Trade Division. “Each unit has been essential to the growth and success of these companies. The workers who tirelessly give their time and talents on the job deserve the assurance that they will be protected and part of the next phase of growth. That is something only a collective bargaining agreement can provide. We are grateful to have their trust in this process.”

This is the first group of workers at Star Waggons to organize with Local 399, but the union already has two contracts with Quixote covering workers in its production vehicles department and in its grip and lighting department. The new demand for union recognition is for cleaners and trailer-manufacturing workers at Quixote’s Penrose location in Sun Valley.

“We were expecting positive