For Hollywood assistants, fighting for visibility may be the first step toward achieving better work conditions
), and which WGA board member Liz Alper then turned into a hashtag — aims to convince studios and agencies that assistants' pay structure is unsustainable.
At work, 81 percent of assistants said that they performed "personal errands" for their bosses during work hours, while nearly 34 percent said they ran those errands after work hours. Fifteen percent worked over 60 hours in a week and 104 respondents had an object thrown at them at work. Steinberg also compared assistant wages to expensive norms for a studio: "If you're talking about a half-hour or one-hour [show], you could pay all the assistants 50 percent more money for the cost of one song," he said.
Moving forward, organizers aim to spotlight nuances of the assistant experience by holding town halls focused on specific issues, such as mental health. "Some of the messages that I receive and some of the stories I get talk about how these assistants feel suicidal because they're trapped in a financial situation," Alper says. Her #PayUpHollywood cofounder Mangan is eager to hold an assistants-only meeting on the topic.
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