The Pitt's union of production assistants is the first of its kind for support staff level on a major television production.
, production and office assistants on the critically acclaimed medical drama voted unanimously to join LiUNA Local 724, the Hollywood laborers’ group. It’s the first major TV production to see the organizing of this level of support staff.
“The PAs on this show are real professionals and we bring our A game every day, so it means a lot that we can now collectively bargain for the same rights and benefits that everyone else gets,”). An anonymous PA added, “A unanimous vote is as undeniable as the rights we are fighting for. A true ‘union’ show and industry cannot exist with nonunion labor.” PAs’ organizing efforts first made headlines in July, when the group requested voluntary recognition for the union and filed a petition for an election with the National Labor Relations Board. They were supported by Production Assistants United, a group that aims to unionize support staff workers nationwide. Per, the group will now advocate for changes and benefits regarding wage raises, access to union health plans, turnaround times, and grievance procedures. But organizers would also like to address how “to create more structured career pathways for PAs,” one of the big, if not the biggest, challenges facing assistant-level staff in the industry today. “LiUNA Local 724 is honored to be at the tip of the spear representing those who long have deserved respect and dignity behind the scenes here in Hollywood, but who have so long been denied that recognition in this place we call Hollywood,” Local 724’s business manager Alex Aguilar said in his own statement. “This is only the beginning.”
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