Production assistants and assistants on Netflix's “The Four Seasons” are looking to
organize with Production Assistants United, Laborers (LIUNA) Local 724. The union received a supermajority of signed union authorization cards from crew members on the show in October.
The production assistants are looking for higher pay, health care and better safety standards. The show was created by Tina Fey and produced by Universal Television.
“Our colleagues are union members because workers unionized their positions decades ago,” said Caroline O’Riordan, an assistant on the show. “Now, we’re organizing to secure the same protections and to build collective power in a political system that prioritizes corporate interests over the working class.”
- AFL-CIO Daily Brief