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Next Membership Meeting:

1:00 PM, October 11th, 2020

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

See calendar announcement for the following details:

2nd Reading of Constitutional Resolutions

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#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.

Unions are again coming together for the Workers Helping Workers food distribution event on Saturday August 15th! Reserve a box or volunteer, here: https://www.workershelpingworkers.com/ Volunteers needed Thursday and Friday, August 13th and 14th – for food box assembly at Operating Engineers 701, Gladstone

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!

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.

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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