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Dear Sisters and Brothers,As many of you have heard, Governor Newsome and Mayor Garcetti have ordered “safer at home emergency order” to slow the spread of the Coronavirus. My office had already been planning and in contact with our tech-support and communication vendors working on secure remote access methods for all Local 44 staff to continue supporting member needs.Anticipating a...
As a safety organization, Contract Services has a responsibility to the overall health and safety of our industry. To help guard against the spread of COVID-19, we have temporarily suspended all in-persontraining and lobby visitation to our facility. This effectively means Contract Services is closed to the public, although many of our staff are still working remotely to keep critical services...
March 17, 2020Dear California Congressional Delegation:We are writing to you on behalf of the over 45,000 members of the California IATSE Council (CIC) who live and work in the entertainment industry in our State. We realize that this is a time of great economic upheaval that is impacting every industry and business—and thus their workers—in California.We hope the needs of all of us can be...
On Monday, March 16, U.S. House Representative Adam Schiff sent the below letter to House leadership requesting considerations for workers in the Entertainment Industry.
Dear Sisters, Brothers and Kin,We are providing the helpful link below to multiple Los Angeles County resources that we hope can be beneficial to you and/or someone you may know. This is a crowd-sourced guide of information regarding government benefits, worker/housing/low-income resources, entertainment, best practices, food, education etc. Stay healthy and safe everyone.Link here: https://...
Friday, March 13, 2020NEW YORK, NY – Matthew D. Loeb, International President of the IATSE, released the following statement with regards to the coronavirus virus:“As social distancing measures are enacted and events and projects across all sectors of the entertainment industry are cancelled, it’s become clear that the COVID-19 crisis requires decisive action from our Federal Government to...
Studio Name Safety Hotline Number20th Century Fox 310-369-3000ABC/Walt Disney 800-832-3389CBS 818-655-6078DreamWorks 818-733-6500HBO 877-742-3044IASTE Safety Hotline 844-422-9273MGM/UA 800-631-5975NBC/Universal...