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May 17, 2020 Seattle

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Washington State Labor Council

321 16th Ave S

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Free Entertainment Industry Technology Trainings

EVERY FREE EVENT TECHNOLOGY TRAINING CLASS, TUTORIAL, AND WORKSHOP BEING OFFERED DURING COVID-19 The Event Technology industry is really pulling together during this downtime, and one of the brightest beacons during all of this is the efforts being made to help those in our industry learn as much as they can while being isolated.

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.

Updated Unemployment Information from the Employment Departments in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.

We hope this Resource List provides you and your family some relief during this crisis. If you have resources you have found useful please email suggestions along with a link to NorthernBA@IATSE488.org & SouthernBA@IATSE488.org. https://docs.google.

Members please take a moment to fill out the survey so we can assess the immedite and longer term needs for you and your family. Thanks for helping us help you. We will get through this together.

Oregon’s unions stand united in our call for the State of Oregon to use every tool available to ease the economic burden on working people and families while ensuring workers who cannot telecommute are provided with the best safety equipment and procedures possible.

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.

We need you to immediately email Congress to include displaced entertainment workers in the coronavirus relief package. This is an urgent call to action! We call on every single member to contact your US Congresspeople as well as your Governor and State Legislators to ensure that entertainment workers aren’t left out of emergency financial relief and paid sick leave policies. Tell them your story of ways which COVID-19 is affecting you.

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

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