IATSE Workers Show Strike Solidarity – but Worry About Their Own Labor Fight Ahead

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Blowing through financial reserves, below-the-line union members are concerned about their leverage in upcoming contract talks

IATSE food drive
IATSE members volunteer at a food drive at the Motion Picture and Television Fund headquarters in Woodland Hills on Aug. 24 (Photo courtesy of IATSE/MPTF/Teamsters)

Javier Hernandez hasn’t had a job as a boom operator for the past seven months and it has taken a lot of number crunching to make his financial reserves last as long as they have as Hollywood’s strikes reached the four-month mark.

But as busy as he’s been taking care of his family, he felt it was important to show up at SAG-AFTRA’s National Day of Solidarity event outside the Disney lot last Tuesday. After a rally that included A-listers like Martin Sheen and Kerry Washington, Hernandez spoke to TheWrap while holding a picket sign bearing the logo of his union: IATSE Local 695.

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