Editorial: Support needed for union in entertainment industry
The IATSE is currently fighting to ensure conditions improve and workers are paid fair wages for the work they put in.
The IATSE is currently fighting to ensure conditions improve and workers are paid fair wages for the work they put in.
Community members have expressed support for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts.
The union has resolved its lawsuits with the administration — one ended in a withdrawal of the suit, the other ended with a settlement.
Students for Labor Action hung a banner outside of Emerson Suites which was hosting Ed Tech Day March 23.
The contingent faculty unions have released an announcement that they will strike March 28 and 29 if a contract agreement is not reached.
“We’ve had dialogue about the issues,” Burroughs said. “They’re either stalling or not doing their work, and we’re not going to tolerate that.”
“I was in an office with another part-timer at one point, and I had received word that I had a contract for the next semester, and she didn’t, and she was a mother, and she said to me ‘I have no idea what I’m going to do now. I have to start applying for jobs,’” Grunberg said.
Members of the Ithaca College administration have denied a request by full-time contingent faculty to join the existing part-time faculty union.
“Right now, we have people in our membership who are single mothers, on welfare, on food stamps, barely making ends meet, who don’t know if they’re going to be hired next semester,” Graham said.
The Ithaca College part-time faculty bargaining committee and the administration discussed the committee’s goals at their first bargaining session Oct. 20.
Ithaca College part-time faculty successfully elected to unionize May 28 with an overwhelming majority.
A petition is being circulated among Ithaca College full-time faculty asking the administration to edit the union election informational website it created to be more in line with the statement that the college is “neither anti-union nor pro-union,” which the college claims on the same website. As of 8 p.m. Thursday the petition was signed by 105 people.