'There was an early post about a member who had gotten a tip from someone else about how to stay awake while driving.”
I think the Instagram page gave crew a safe space to talk about the things that we all experienced in our exhausted silos and don't take the time to speak out loud to one another. And what I see and hear through the page is that many people felt alone in their experience of"I cannot handle these hours and this is abusive" and felt kind of gaslit by the whole industry and the system.
BuzzFeed Daily: Today is a big day for IATSE. Over the weekend union members voted on a strike authorization and the results just came out that the vote passed. Now, this isn't a vote to begin the strike — just to give leadership the authority to call a strike if they think it's necessary. There hasn't been a major strike in Hollywood since the 2007 writers' strike.
BuzzFeed Daily: I'm curious how this experience has impacted your perspective on organized labor, not just in your union, but in any industry. What have you learned from this experience?It has only increased all of my belief and faith in organized labor and unions. Members are the union, and this vote comes as the result of a lot of work, not only by our leadership, but a lot of rank-and-file members who turned out their crew members and friends and peers.
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