Welcome to another summer of uncertainty in Hollywood as more crew union contract negotiations get underway
The members of Hollywood’s crew member unions include people who – literally – help keep the lights on around town on film and television show sets, the same ones that will go dark again if the unions’ contract negotiations fail and another strike descends upon an industry still sore from last summer’s historic strikes.
“There’s always a reason to strike,” Lindsay Dougherty, Teamsters Lo... moreWelcome to another summer of uncertainty in Hollywood as more crew union contract negotiations get underway
The members of Hollywood’s crew member unions include people who – literally – help keep the lights on around town on film and television show sets, the same ones that will go dark again if the unions’ contract negotiations fail and another strike descends upon an industry still sore from last summer’s historic strikes.
“There’s always a reason to strike,” Lindsay Dougherty, Teamsters Local 399 principal officer and chairperson of the Hollywood Basic Crafts, said in a recent interview with CNN ahead of Monday’s start of the unions’ negotiations with major studios. But, she adds “I don’t anticipate that the studios will be giving us that reason.”
Either way, she continued, the union intends to “fight for everything that we can get” because “we’re done being disrespected.”
