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Next Membership Meeting:

1:00 PM, November 8th, 2020

This is a virtual meeting via Zoom. Check email for link

See calendar announcement for the following details:

3rd and final Reading of Constitutional Resolutions, vote will take place at this meeting

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New COVID-19 Prevention Training Required For Work Under The ASA

As part of the Return To Work Agreement recently negotiated with the Alliance of Motion Pictures & Television Producers (AMPTP), the IATSE and Motion Picture Industry Unions/Guilds have negotiated required COVID-19 prevention training in order to ensure the motion picture & TV/streaming production workforce can return to work safely.

Covid 19 Return To Work Agreement

After months of negotiations via the IATSE Locals, DGA, Teamsters and SAG-AFTRA have reached agreement with the producers. Attached to this message please find the complete Agreement and a separate Summary document.

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2020-9 RTW Summary FINAL 9.21.pdf

Workers Helping Workers: Thanks To All Our Volunteers!! 3,000 boxes of food handed out to date!

Unions have been coming together in Oregon and SW Washington for the Workers Helping Workers food distribution events since July. We hope to have more food boxes available in the Fall.

Since their meeting on July 16, the Trustees have been considering reasonable and cost-effective options for ensuring coverage for Plan C participants for the quarter beginning October 1.

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OctoberReliefNotice_new.pdf

#WishIWasThere

The Communications Department is currently collecting video content for the #WishIWasThere campaign. This campaign will highlight all the different faces of our union. Join in by submitting a 10 second video recording of yourself. Click through for format instructions and details!

EVICTION BAN EXTENDED THROUGH OCT. 1! Also: workplace guidelines, videos available in additional languages, and more.

Covid-19 Precautions For Productions

If you are working on production during the Covid-19 pandemic here is a list of precautions which production companies should be following. Please alert your Business Agent if you see a breach in these [protocols or any other safety issue. Let us know if you or a family member are ill or in quarantine and we can provide additional resources.

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Coronavirus Precautions For Productions To Maintain Safe working Conditons.pdf

Seamsters In Solidarity

Seamsters In Solidarity are a collective of organized workers and artists working to provide masks and PPE to frontline workers. Learn more about what they are doing at their website and FB page: https://www.seamstersinsolidarity.org/ https://www.facebook.com/SeamstersInSolidarity/.

We hope this Resource List provides you and your family some relief during this crisis.Additionally there is link to Dislocated Worker (which we qualify for) and a webinar being offered by WorkSource (Oregon Unemployment) and Worksystems, Inc.

IATSE Pride

Pride Month (June) is behind us for this year, but IATSE continues to recognize and honor the LBGTQIA+ community all year long!

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COVID-19 Testing
This email serves as a notification that the National Benefit Funds has waived all fees for COVID-19 testing for all participants enrolled in all Health & Welfare Plan A and Plan C options as well as those enrolled in Triple S. If you have any questions, please contact the Fund Office.

COVID Economic Relief
IATSE pushing Congress for economic relief for entertainment workers