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Next Membership Meeting:

1:00 PM, August 9th, 2020

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

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Workers Helping Workers

Workers Helping Workers Unions are coming together to distribute food boxes to members! Come out for the Workers Helping Workers food distribution on this Thursday, June 25th, 10:00am until 1:00pm, at UFCW Local 555, 7095 SW Sandburg St, Tigard, OR. There are plenty of boxes of food left to reserve and volunteers are needed, learn more: https://www.workershelpingworkers.com/ for food box pick up.

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 who stand in solidarity with front line and essential workers by working to provide masks and PPE. 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.

June is Pride Month

Pride Month in the U.S. and Canada is celebrated each June to recognize and honor the LBGTQIA+ community.

Free Entertainment Industry Trainings

. The Event Technology industry is really pulling together during this downtime, & one of the brightest beacons is the efforts being made to help those in our industry learn as much as they can while being isolated.

Updated Unemployment Information from the Employment Departments in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Important updates on pay for crew of CHAD and Crazy For You: Do Not Claim This Money As Income On Unemployment (See details by following link to full article).

IATSE Launches IATSECARES.org

Participants and Volunteers Needed! With COVID-19 ravaging communities and industries across the world, we need to provide support to our most at-risk, elderly, and disabled members. To that end, the International has launched C.A.R.E.S. (Coronavirus Active Response and Engagement Service), a new initiative to organize mutual aid amongst for the most vulnerable of our sisters and brothers.

Free ETC Courses Online

Anybody who wants to learn programming and DMX, check out this link to ETCs online courses. From now until May 15, all of their LearningStage online courses will be free.

COVID-19 testing

The IATSE 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. IATSENBF.

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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