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Seeking to address working conditions that have “worsened dramatically” in recent years, thousands of workers employed in TV commercial production departments across the country have formed a new union called Stand With Production under the umbrella of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
Asking to be recognized by the Association of Independent Commercial Producers, the newly formed union represents line producers, production supervisors, assistant production supervisors, production assistants and others working in commercial production departments.
“Commercial production workers’ issues are the very same ones this union has fought to address through collective bargaining for decades,” IATSE president Matt Loeb said. “As 160,000 strong working in all corners of the entertainment industry, including many who work on commercials directly alongside you, your fight is our fight.”
In its mission statement, the new union says that “We have found that our working conditions have worsened dramatically over the past decade. We are in a historic time. Production timelines have shortened while agencies and clients have expanded their expectations. All this while cost consultants and clients work diligently to defund the working capital to produce these projects. The pandemic has only exacerbated these changes. The greatest burden of the responsibility for Covid has also fallen on the shoulders of the production teams. There are no longer the time, resources, or tools that we need to be safe and successful on our employers’ projects.
“This has caused many of our production brethren to opt out of the business and/or find new less stressful and strenuous ways to earn a living. This is why production companies have
The next Tory leader "won't keep the Union safe" by following Boris Johnson's blunt refusal to allow an IndyRef2, the country's top pollster has said.
dropped a post on Instagram asking whether she should take her private jet or the one belonging to her longtime boyfriend Travis Scott. What was probably meant as a combination lighthearted joke and brag post didn’t go over very well at all and has led to people digging into her flying habits and roasting her on Twitter. Her sister Kourtney Kardashian, however, has been getting the opposite response on social media.
over celebrity CO2 emissions from private jet travel, the Marvel superstar from New York City, where he has been filming The Crowded Room, to visit his girlfriend, , in Budapest, where she is filming the second Dune movie. Fans filmed the booked and busy couple spending time together in Hungary, and the video has since gone viral on Twitter. This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Another fan seemingly captured knitting during a long commercial flight.
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