🎭 BREAKING: IATSE International President Matthew D. Loeb Meets with Kennedy Center Workers Amid Recent Cancellations 🧵 - ThreadSky

iatse.bsky.social • 42 days ago

🎭 BREAKING: IATSE International President Matthew D. Loeb Meets with Kennedy Center Workers Amid Recent Cancellations 🧵

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iatse.bsky.social•42 days ago

During his visit Loeb reaffirmed the vital role that stagehands, wardrobe professionals, makeup artists, ticket sellers, press agents, and other skilled entertainment workers play in bringing world-class productions to life at the Kennedy Center—regardless of the content or artistic choices involved

iatse.bsky.social•42 days ago

“Behind-the-scenes workers need to feed our families and have neither participated in any decisions relating to booked content, nor have we considered social issues as a matter of whether we service a production in the history of our relationship at the Kennedy Center,” Loeb stated.

iatse.bsky.social•42 days ago

We have a contract and fulfill our end of the deal. We are the best, safest, most experienced workforce available and we’ve worked in the building since it opened 53 years ago, throughout all the challenges and successes the institution has seen.

iatse.bsky.social•42 days ago

It is our hope the Center can continue to offer the best to the public when it comes to promoting world-class productions, while protecting freedom of speech and expression, free of censorship in the spirit of foundational democratic values.

iatse.bsky.social•42 days ago

IATSE's 7 Locals representing labor at the Kennedy Center include:
💪 Local 22 (Stagehands)
👚 Local 772 (Wardrobe)
💄💇‍♂️ Local 798 (Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists)
🎟️ Local 868 (Treasurers & Ticket Sellers)

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iatse.bsky.social•42 days ago

☎️ Local B868 (Instant Charge/Telephone Sales and Information)
🧑‍🎨 Local USA 829 (Scenic Artists)
📢 ATPAM Local 18032 (Theatrical Press Agents & Managers)

For these folks, as well as touring crews working under IATSE’s Pink Contracts, cancelled shows & empty seats directly impact hundreds of families

lowellpeterson.bsky.social•41 days ago

Nobody voted last November to put union members out of work.

roadie56.bsky.social•41 days ago

trump would like nothing better than to break the Union , stay strong and resist

kevinklad.bsky.social•37 days ago

Great Move. Maybe spend some time finding a new DC venue to support artists, workers, and audiences. Today the ‘board’ discussed breaking the union at The Kennedy Center.

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