Category: Strike the Stage
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Long Hours Kill: State Unionism or Class-conscious Unionism?
Whatever happened to the 8 hour workday? Once again, Flyspace pushed us to work extremely long days last month on Light Up Night. Full-timers were working more than 15 hour days, going until 4 AM in some cases, then returning only a few hours later to work another marathon shift until dawn the next day.…
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Off-Season Edition: The Four-Way Conflict of “Dazzling Nights”
As Dazzling Nights comes to an end, the off-season for the events industry begins. It’s worth looking at this show in particular in-depth for all its abuses, its frustrations, and because it highlights all the basic conflicts within our industry. Like every Flyspace-staffed event, all local crew is grossly underpaid. $18 an hour is well…
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Wrap-Up on the 2024 Contracts and the Relations Between Union and Non-Union Stagehands
The 2024 IATSE contracts with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the Hollywood Basic Agreement (HBA), Area Standards Agreement (ASA) and Videotape Agreement (VA), were all ratified July 18th. IATSE described the national turnout as “historically high” but did not actually release specific union-wide turnout numbers. Nationally, of those who voted, 85.9%…
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The Collusion Behind the Tentative Agreements in Hollywood
The IATSE negotiating committees for the Hollywood Basic Agreement (HBA) and Area Standards Agreement (ASA) have reached tentative agreements with the AMPTP. These contracts set the standard for every film local in the IA. For the last year and a half film crews have been stretched incredibly thin. While the WGA and SAG-AFTRA went on…