IATSE Local 479

Today, we honor the hard-fought struggles of the labor movement and celebrate the collective solidarity of working people!

The Georgia AFL-CIO is holding a membership drive potluck on Sunday, August 18th from 5pm until 8pm. Follow the link for details.

🎶🎷🎤 Attention ! 🎤🎷🎶

Get ready to jazz up your ! Join us for an evening of music, food, and fellowship at the Membership Drive Potluck!

📅 Date: Sunday, August 18th
🕔 Time: 5 PM - 8 PM
📍 Location: 551 Dutch Valley Road, Atlanta, GA 30324

Enjoy live performances by Jazz Matters & The Edwin Williams Experience. Don’t miss out on a chance to connect with fellow musicians and groove to some fantastic tunes! 🎵🎺

👥 All musicians welcome! Spread the word and bring a friend or two! Let’s make some music and memories! 🎉

❤️ Atlanta Federation of Musicians ❤️

The Atlanta-North Georgia Labor Council will be hosting a strategy session this Saturday, August 10th from 9:30am to 12:30pm. Please RSVP by TOMORROW, August 8th. Breakfast will be provided.

This month Local 479 is rolling out our new Member Assistance Program (MAP), a free and confidential service designed to provide support and find solutions to a wide range of personal or work-related problems, providing members with access to social workers who can help identify and find resources to resolve family, personal or work-related problems. Members: check your inbox for more information, or look for the Member Assistance Program on the Member Dashboard!

BREAKING NEWS 🚨After a long last 48-hours, we are PROUD to report that ALL Hollywood Basic Crafts Locals have reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP late this evening.

The basic crafts spent today working closely with our member-led negotiating committees to finalize a deal with the AMPTP that we can now say is being unanimously recommended by our member-led bargaining committees.

MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW after tomorrow’s Local 399 General Membership Meeting.

Email: [email protected] if you have not received the link to attended.

This week, a majority members who participated in the ratification vote for the 2024-2027 Area Standards Agreement approved a new 3 year contract with employers, ensuring that we will have trained professionals ready to crew new projects coming into our jurisdiction. This contract provides significant new wage gains, benefit increases, and penalties to discourage long hours.

IATSE Local 479 remains dedicated to the principles of trade unionism and the representation of every worker employed in our crafts, based on the IATSE’s long history of pursuing fair wages and working conditions for its members.

THE ASA RATIFICATION VOTING DEADLINE IS TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT and we STILL have members who HAVE NOT EXCERCISED THEIR VOTE. If you are a member who has not voted, please search your inbox for an email from Honest Ballot and follow the instructions contained inside. If you have already voted, please TALK TO THE MEMBERS IN YOUR CIRCLE and make sure that THEY have voted. Regardless of HOW members vote, we need for EVERYONE to participate in this IMPORTANT decision.

Search for an email from Honest Ballot and follow the instructions contained inside. If you do not see the ballot in your inbox, please check the screening folders in your email app (spam, junkmail, offers, etc)

The Area Standards Inter-Local Town Hall Webinar is now underway. Members, for further information on access and authentication to this online meeting please check your inbox for an email from IATSE, sent on Friday, July 12th. This town hall is scheduled to last until 7pm.

Ballots for the IATSE 2024 ASA Contract Ratification Vote were issued this morning. Members, check your inbox and VOTE!

The Georgia AFL-CIO has published a list of dates for their workshop presentations scheduled over the next several months. Details and links to the Zoom signups are provided in the comments. Please direct your questions to [email protected]

MEMBERS: DID YOU RECEIVE THIS EMAIL? If you did NOT receive this email and are a member of IATSE Local 479, please contact Jennifer Hutchins at [email protected] by 5pm TODAY (Wednesday July 10th), to make sure that your email address is correct in the Local's system. THIS SUNDAY WEDNESDAY JULY 14th an electronic ballot for the new Area Standards Agreement will be sent to eligible members of IATSE. The ballot will be sent to each member's email address on file. Voting will run from SUNDAY July 14th until WEDNESDAY July 17th, ending at Midnight.

IATSE Local 479 is hosting 4 additional Zoom-only Town Halls over the course of the next 2 weeks to review and answer questions about the Tentative Agreement with the AMPTP for the Area Standards agreement so that you are informed ahead of the ratification vote.

MEMBERS: check your email inbox or the AGREEMENTS page of the Member Dashboard for links to register for these meetings.

NOTE: each meeting covers the same material, please do not feel obligated to attend each meeting but DO attend at least one!! Please Participate!!

TODAY!!!! --> Local 479 will be holding a TOWN HALL to discuss the recently announced Tentative Agreement with the studios. Members check your email for details about this meeting. You can attend IN PERSON or can pre-register to join via ZOOM. There will be plenty to discuss and you will be able to talk directly to our negotiations team and to one of the lead negotiators from the International. Encourage your 479 kin to participate in this process!!

🚨 BREAKING: IATSE REACHES TENTATIVE AGREEMENT ON AREA STANDARDS WITH HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS.

Members and signatories will have the opportunity to review the agreement in the form of a Detailed Summary in the days to come, followed by a Memorandum of Agreement (M.O.A.) at a later date.

With deals on both the Basic and ASA, ~70,000 film and tv workers will soon get to vote on whether to ratify their new contracts in mid-July.

BREAKING NEWS: IATSE, AMPTP Jointly Announce Tentative Agreement for Hollywood Basic Agreement and Videotape Agreement

LOS ANGELES — The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) announced a tentative agreement on all issues for the Hollywood Basic Agreement and Videotape Agreement negotiations.

The tentative agreement is now pending ratification by the unions’ membership. Members and signatories will have the opportunity to review the agreement in the form of a Detailed Summary 2-3 days following this announcement, as well as a Memorandum of Agreement (M.O.A.) an estimated 2 weeks following this announcement.

The parties now look forward to closing negotiations for the Area Standards Agreement.

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The IATSE DEI Committee reminds members throughout the United States of the history and *significance* of the Juneteenth Federal holiday, and informs members that the IATSE is seeking to have this holiday recognized in our contracts! Please read the press release for more information.

As we commemorate this important day, we encourage everyone to engage in conversations, educate themselves on the history and significance of Juneteenth, and actively participate in the ongoing fight for justice and equality. Together, we can create a more inclusive and just society.

For recommended viewing and reading for Juneteenth, click here: honoring-juneteenth-iatse-dei-advocates-to-secure-holiday-in-contracts

Email is the primary means the Local uses for transmitting information to the membership, both from the Local and from its various committees. Please regularly check to make sure that you are receiving Local 479's emails to the address you have provided to the Local.

NEW EMAIL ADDRESS?
If at any time you change your email address it is vital that you update the address on file by logging into the Member Dashboard and update your account information with the new email address.

HOW TO UPDATE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
After logging in just go to "My Account" then click on "Contact Details" then scroll down to Phone/Email and look for the "Email" form field. Once you have typed in the new email address and double-checked to make sure it is correct, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button "Submit Changes".

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It's ONE FIGHT FRIDAY! Across our jurisdiction members of IATSE Local 479 are wearing their MANY CRAFTS ONE FIGHT t-shirts in solidarity with members of IATSE who are seeking to provide a better life for their families during our current contract negotiations with employers. Shown here are members from our most recent General Membership Meeting!

It's ONE FIGHT FRIDAY and members everywhere have been proudly wearing their MANY CRAFTS ONE FIGHT t-shirts, standing united in our mission to secure better wages, greater benefits, and safer working conditions. The Captain Video playback team are showing their solidarity around town today!!

It's ONE FIGHT FRIDAY and IATSE members are showing their solidarity by wearing their MANY CRAFTS ONE FIGHT t-shirts on set, in the office, in the mills, in the lockups, on location, and beyond! The IATSE Local 479 Women’s Committee are proud to demonstrate their commitment to getting better wages, greater benefits, and safer working conditions! Shown here, front to back, left to right: Hanna McGugan, Melva Akens, Molly Coffee, Heather Haynes, Cat Booth, Natasha Dalton Isaac, Missie Johnson, Jonathan Williams, Quwyndoline Farley, Sara Riney

IATSE is fighting to get members back to work with fair wages, benefits, and working conditions. Our membership spans a wide array of crafts, from set decoration and sound, to electric and video playback. Shown here are Local 479 Construction Department members Chandler Knight and Robbie Farula wearing their MANY CRAFTS ONE FIGHT t-shirts for ONE FIGHT FRIDAY, to advance the interests of crew who work as set teachers and in solidarity of ALL the members across IATSE who are seeking to provide a better life for their families.

It's ONE FIGHT FRIDAY! Across our jurisdiction members of IATSE Local 479 are wearing their MANY CRAFTS ONE FIGHT t-shirts in solidarity with members of IATSE who are seeking to provide a better life for their families during our current contract negotiations with employers. Shown here are members of Local 479’s scenic department, from left to right: James Anthony, Dylan Kilgore, Matt Cisneros, Joey Webb, Kellie Olsen, David Cianciolo, Jay Murphy, Nicole Appleby, Cheyenne Powell, Greg Moncrief, Kayla Doles.

Solidarity

IATSE is fighting to get members back to work with fair wages, benefits, and working conditions. Our membership spans a wide array of crafts, from construction and scenic to costumes and props. Shown here are Set Teachers Elizabeth Russell (left) and Cindy Sherwood wearing their MANY CRAFTS ONE FIGHT t-shirts for ONE FIGHT FRIDAY, to advance the interests of crew who work as set teachers and in solidarity of ALL the members across IATSE who are seeking to provide a better life for their families.

It's ONE FIGHT FRIDAY and across our jurisdiction our members are wearing their MANY CRAFTS ONE FIGHT t-shirts in solidarity with members of IATSE across North America, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico who are seeking to provide a better life for their families during our current contract negotiations. IATSE Local 479 members from left to right: Matthew Swab, Liv Clark, Art Moore, Rich Koll, Alfred Johnson, and Matt Forehand.

IATSE is fighting to get members back to work with fair wages, benefits, and working conditions. Our membership spans a wide array of crafts, from the camera crew to the people working in the shops and mills where the sets are built. Members Scott Sparks (left) and Andrew Bones (right) bring those sets to life and are wearing their MANY CRAFTS ONE FIGHT t-shirts for ONE FIGHT FRIDAY in solidarity of all the members across IATSE who are seeking to provide a better life for their families.

This morning several of members from Video Playback stopped by to pick up their MANY CRAFTS ONE FIGHT t-shirt! From left to right: Luke Enzor, Aaron DeLauder, Allie O'Neill, and Brian Kirkner.

One week ago, Local 479’s DEI Committee launched its first community event, HEALTH IS WEALTH, a health fair targeting industry workers in need of free medical screening and health support services.

Planning for this event took place over the past several months, working in partnership with the Fulton County Board of Health Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).

Many thanks to all who made this happen, and to those who came down to receive services!

As IATSE members we grind day in and day out behind the scenes to bring tv shows and movies to life for billions of viewers. The Hollywood Studios need to show up and offer IATSE workers the contract we deserve. Listen to IATSE International Vice President Mike Miller on Deadline's 'Strike Talk' Podcast discussing the ongoing negotiations between IATSE and the AMPTP.

They Need To Show Up As IATSE members we grind day in and day out behind the scenes to bring tv shows and movies to life for billions of viewers.The Hollywood Studios need to sho...

FREE HEALTH SCREENINGS ON MAY 18th for film industry workers - Register Today!! (link in comments) This industry-wide health fair is open to everyone in the industry, including members of all IA union locals, Teamsters, members of the Screen Actors Guild, the Writers Guild, the Directors Guild, and Production Assistants.

You will NOT need to bring your insurance card or information.

Health screenings for men, woman, and children, kids fun zone, informative vendors with medical resources and items.

There will be a kids zone to keep the children engaged and active while parents get all the information, education and resources they need to keep and maintain a healthy, well-balanced lifestyle while working in the industry.

Please make sure to share this registration info with your fellow crew members! Registration for this event is mandatory.