International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE)

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.