… Once the strike begins, you should not be wrapping any rental gear or other employer equipment as that is solely part of your work that is struck work.” Those working from home are instructed to notify employers to retrieve employer-provided equipment. You should plan to do so before leaving work on Friday, October 15 or at the end of your last day of employment prior to Monday, October 18. The union also said that members can reclaim “personal equipment or equipment that is sub-rented by you. “If you are approached about being ‘held’ with the payment of hold fees, that is inconsistent with being on strike and you should insist on being sent home.” “You will need to take the return trip offer as they will not be required to continue housing you if you refuse the offer,” the union explains in the document. Should IATSE call a strike, the union related that employers are “legally required” to arrange and pay for union workers to return home with their gear, whether they are working within or outside the U.S. The union further adds that it asks all workers not to do IATSE-covered work during a strike. Non-IATSE members who scab “jeopardize ever becoming members of this great Alliance,” the document says. Members who cross a picket line “will be in violation of the IATSE Constitution and Bylaws and will be subject to discipline by their Local and the International,” which could include fines, being subject to “public censure,” being suspended or expelled. The union also states the consequences for “scabbing,” or working while a strike is ongoing or taking a striking worker’s place. If a strike is occurring, members will be expected to picket at a studio, their work location, or other location determined by their Local, the union says.
On Monday, members are advised to check their emails in the morning before going to work to determine whether a strike is in effect. “We will be coordinating closely about what work is not struck, and will be contacting the few members who are not required to strike in the event a strike is called.” “You must check with the Local about any job before you continue to perform or accept new work,” the document tells members. The contracts that would remain in effect during a strike include the union’s Sports Broadcasting, Low Budget Theatrical and Pay Television Agreements, as well as the Commercial and Music Video Production Agreements, and select independent agreements. The union added that Studio Mechanics nationwide, as well as Local 161, Local USA-829 members and Local 798 members in select areas, would go on strike. In the document the union confirms that if a strike is called, the union’s 13 West Coast Locals will go on strike, including three with members nationwide (Locals 600, 700 and 800). PT if contract talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) are not resolved by the end of the weekend. In a “2021 Strike FAQs” document sent to Locals’ members Thursday, the union gives new details about a strike that it has said will begin Monday, Oct. 18 against film and television studios, the union is offering members guidance on who would and wouldn’t be on strike, whether striking members can collect unemployment, and if they risk losing their health care in the event of a work stoppage. One day after IATSE announced a tentative strike date of Oct.
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