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 …
Rob Callahan
Rob Callahan
Rob Callahan is the Motion Picture Editors Guild’s National Organizer. He can be reached at [email protected]. Learn more about organizing with the Guild at www.editorsguild.com/Organize.
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DepartmentsGetting Organized
Contract High – Deluxe Digital Cinema Technicians Win Raises, Respect
by Rob Callahanby Rob CallahanIn a nondescript Burbank falafel joint on a sweltering Sunday afternoon in July of last year, co-workers crowded around an impromptu conference table made up of several four-tops pushed together. …
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Deluxe Digital Cinema Technicians Ratify First Union Contract!
by Rob Callahanby Rob CallahanBy a vote of 89%, employees of Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema have overwhelmingly ratified their first union contract. The three-year agreement between the company and the Motion Picture Editors Guild …
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Digital Cinema Employees Demand Deluxe Raise Wages
by Rob Callahanby Rob CallahanThe 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 …
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Employees of Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema Vote Union Yes!
by Rob Callahanby Rob CallahanEmployees 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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Almost two years ago, I met a lot of new friends and reconnected with many old ones walking the picket line in support of the striking crew of Shahs of …
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DepartmentsGetting Organized
A Bullet Dodged, but Labor Remains a Target for Attacks
by Rob Callahanby Rob CallahanWhat 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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Where they have been enacted, “Right to Work” laws discourage union membership. Their object was, and remains, the evisceration of organized labor.
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In early October of this year, a group of employees at Leftfield Entertainment, a large reality television production company in New York, faced such a choice, set more or less …
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Getting Organized
ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION: The Law Is Seldom on Labor’s Side
by Rob Callahanby Rob CallahanWhen we fight and win, we do so not because we have statutes or courts on our side, but because we have the extralegal strength that comes from steadfast solidarity …