Getting Organized -

A Bullet Dodged, but Labor Remains a Target for Attacks

June 1, 2016

What makes you a Guild member? Is it principally about a transaction, the remittance of quarterly payments for membership? Or is it about your relationship to your colleagues,

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Employees of Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema Vote Union Yes!

September 23, 2016

Employees of Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema (DTDC) have voted overwhelmingly to unionize with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and the Editors Guild!

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Digital Cinema Employees Demand Deluxe Raise Wages

January 23, 2017

The delegation of nearly twenty employees delivered a petition from the company’s roughly seventy unionized employees, calling upon their employer to negotiate in good faith to bring wage rates in line with industry standards.

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Vice Employees Go Union!

September 21, 2017

Post-production employees working on video for Vice Media have now won union representation! On Thursday, the company officially recognized the Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, as the representative for its East Coast employees working in post on the company’s digital content

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Labor Pains Increase
But an Energized and Committed Union Is the Cure

December 8, 2017

The folks who craft trailers make regular use of a particular species of musical cue: a sustained droning growl of a note, signaling looming menace.

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Resolve vs. Intransigence
The Key to Organizing a Workplace

February 16, 2018

Deciding to organize in the workplace is itself a kind of resolution — one appropriate for the new year or any other time a change is warranted.

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Nick Animation Editorial Crew Goes Union!

April 13, 2018

The editorial employees of Nickelodeon Animation Studio have overwhelmingly elected to unionize with the Motion Picture Editors Guild, Local 700 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE).

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Conventional Lessons

September 1, 2009

each of these groups was struggling with a profound but similar problem––the way technology was changing the jobs of their membership. The solution for many of them was the same: Organize.

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