Once, I fell asleep at a stoplight and a person knocked on my window to wake me up.”Īnd the companies are thinking about reverberations: If crews extract big gains, other Hollywood unions are going to demand similar treatment. Then I quit and switched to car screaming, eating wasabi peas or slapping myself dramatically across my face.
Graalman added: “My trick for staying awake while driving home from work at 3 a.m.
Thousands of us realized that during Covid. “Just because working us into the ground has been normal doesn’t make it OK. “We are people, not machines,” said Sarah Graalman, a makeup artist who has worked on shows like “ Harlem,” an Amazon comedy. The pandemic also gave crew members new perspective. In particular, streaming services are hurting for content Netflix and Disney have both experienced a slowdown in subscriber sign-ups because high-profile offerings have been delayed by the pandemic.
Why has rest become a union priority?Įntertainment companies are trying to make up for lost time during pandemic-related shutdowns by churning out new television shows and films at a breakneck pace. Studios offered crews an extra day off by finally recognizing Martin Luther King’s Birthday, which has been a federal holiday since 1983. Studios say they have also agreed to longer rest periods between shifts (10-hour turnarounds for most employees) and some wage increases. Studios say they have negotiated in good faith and given in to many of the union’s demands, including an agreement to fund a $400 million deficit in its pension and health plan without imposing premiums or increasing the cost of health coverage. IATSE, as the union is known (or sometimes just I.A.), wants better pay for streaming-service work higher wages for coordinators and assistants on all productions longer rest periods between shifts and on weekends and strengthened requirements for meal breaks during marathon shoots. 20, when the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers - a bargaining entity for studios, including Amazon, Apple and Netflix - declined to counter the union’s most recent proposal. Renewal negotiations started in May and stalled on Sept. The previous three-year contract expired in July. About 60,000 members are covered by the contract being renegotiated with studios. The union represents some 150,000 crew members in the United States and Canada: camera operators, cinematographers, script coordinators, prop makers, set builders, editors, makeup artists and other behind-the-scenes specialists. The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees said that 90 percent of eligible members cast online votes between Friday and Sunday nearly 99 percent of the votes were in favor of a strike. LOS ANGELES - Hollywood moved closer to a production shutdown on Monday after one of the film and television industry’s lower-profile unions said that members had overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike.
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