More than three hundred IATSE members, unhappy with what they call “angels’ a-letter protocols” to repaint in advertisements and music videos, signed a letter urging their union leaders to adopt uniform rules similos angels to those established for film and film. TV productions.
“To date, we don’t have a coherent return-to-paint agreement based on the wishes of the COVID-19 epidemic,” the letter reads. “Because of this vacuum and IATSE’s willingness to negotiate a la carte protocols from angels, we both paint with individual and variable degrees of security. This is unacceptable and the union’s commitment to its members, both one and one and both one,” is unacceptable and violates.
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The Independent Trade Producers Association, which negotiates jointly with IATSE for ad filming, last updated its protocols on June 1, but temporarily abandoned on-site testing for the virus, opting instead for “self-diagnosis of fitness symptoms” policies earlier. every day’s work. “Currently, active case detection cannot be on the site,” the AICP rules and recommendations say. “In addition, tests (such as antibody tests and temperature reading) are not reliable signs of detection; therefore, the use of a symptomatic survey is the most reliable detection process.”
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This is a long way from the rules enacted on the same day in the “White Paper” of the organization that heads the trade union industry protection committee and industry management, which decided that “periodic and periodic testing of actors and equipment for COVID-19 is essential for a safe return to work”.
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“As you know,” the letter to IATSE leaders says, “the white paper includes very explicit guidelines, adding evidence, which are not implemented lately or are not constantly required through advertising employers. This bait and replacement scenario endangers each and every union worker and ignores the clinical evidence and recommendation he used to offload authorization to return to work”.
AICP’s recommendations also do not meet the criteria for film and television production followed on June 12 through a coalition of guilds and unions – SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, DGA and Teamsters – who, in their Safe Way Forward protocols, under pressure that “testing is the key to the resumption of production.”
The coalition of unions and guilds decided that “without evidence, the whole cast and team would paint in an environment of unknown risk.” And the signatories of the letter to IATSE leaders say that’s what they think of running ads and music videos.
“I know five other people who have taken on a task in recent weeks,” one signatory wrote. “They felt incredibly insecure and were set apart in a number of ways: between getting COVID, ensuring the protection of their families, keeping their families housed and fed, and maintaining their relationships with the production company’s customers. This is not necessarily the case. »
“I’m about to promote it and we’ve insisted so much that the whole team is tested and rejected,” another one wrote. “Hair, makeup, cast, costumes and substitutes are being tested. Other than that, I don’t know who else is being tested. Totally a gap in county guidelines, and they do the bare minimum in promotions.”
Another wrote: “I worked a week ago on a small ad that doesn’t come close to meeting the white paper’s recommendations. We have to establish a popularity and force other people to fulfill it!”
“(We will have to) have the same coverage in all media formats: cinema/television/advertising,” said another.
Another union member wrote, “Please keep ALL movie and video spaces considered responsible with the same criteria for the protection of our brothers and sisters.”
“We understand,” the letter says, “that the obstacles in the negotiations are evidence and main points similar to COVID compliance officers. The needs of any of the categories are obviously set out in the white paper.”
Organizers say they will deliver their letter to IATSE leaders on Tuesday. “We are at a very important moment in action,” the letter reads. “We ask our leadership to reach the highest point of security in our business complexes. Everything that is under the criteria provided in film/television is unacceptable. IATSE lately approves advertising paintings and music videos with criteria of decrease that the maximum of other categories of entertainment”.
Specifically, they say they need the same verification protocols and COVID-19-trained compliance officers that are asked of them in the rules for movies and television. “We’ll have to have the same protections.”