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‘The Pitt’ Production Assistants Launch Landmark Unionization Drive

July 28, 2025 Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter. , , , ,
The hit, Emmy-nominated show The Pitt is notching another distinction: In a rare move, its production assistants are announcing an attempt to unionize. Support staffers on the second season of the show requested voluntary recognition for a union and filed a petition for an election with the National Labor Relations Board on Friday, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Their effort is the first backed by Production Assistants United — a movement that aims to unionize this class of workers nationwide — to go public. “This is the first time ever that we can say PAs and assistants are unionizing on a show like this in film and TV,” says Production Assistants United organizer Ethan Ravens, who like other leaders in the movement is a production assistant himself. “It’s huge.”

In Uncertain Times For Entertainment, IATSE Reformers See A Way Forward

July 23, 2025 Greg Loebell, Labor Notes. , , , ,
The International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE) will hold its Quadrennial Convention in Hawaii starting July 28. The 2025 “Quad” convention would be business as usual, if not for an upstart group of IATSE members in a reform caucus called CREW that believes they can fix some of their union’s worst flaws. The union covers 170,000 entertainment workers in the U.S. and Canada. “When I first started working in the film industry in the summer of 2021, I began to notice that many IATSE members had little faith that our union leadership could change anything in regards to bettering work conditions like eliminating ‘fraturdays” [work days that start Friday night and end Saturday morning],” said Juniper Jensen, a Local 700 Assistant Editor.

Beyonce Pays Tribute To Black Panthers, Malcolm X & #BLM At Superbowl

February 8, 2016 Chris Pleasance, www.dailymail.co.uk , , ,
By Chris Pleasance for Daily Mail - Beyonce gets political at the Super Bowl: Singer performs 'Black Lives Matter rallying cry' - as her dancers dress as Black Panthers, pay tribute to Malcolm X and demand justice for man shot dead by cops. Beyonce issued a strong political statement with her halftime show at Super Bowl 50 on Sunday with backing dancers dressed as members of armed rights group the Black Panthers. The superstar brought the dancers on for her new single Formation which is being widely touted as a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement.
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