IA organizes Wal-Mart Commercial (into union set)

fyi, for what it's worth, etc. -- from a press release sent out today by IATSE

Wal-Mart's Union Commercial


LOS ANGELES -- Picture Vision Pictures, Inc, a Nashville production house,signed with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes (IATSE)for the filming of a Wal-Mart TV commercial after an organizing drive and a brief work stoppage.

The significance of this organizing drive is that Wal-Mart had
previously filmed commercials non-union. Thanks to this contract signing, a crew of thirty will receive retroactive health and pension benefits and, more importantly, Picture Vision Pictures, Inc is now a signatory to anational contract.

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Wal-Mart is a completely nonunion, antiunion employer, and has
routinely sought to make its commercials non-union. At the last Mid-Winter General Executive Board Meeting of the IATSE in Houston, Texas, International Representative Mahoney noted that Wal-Mart produces its own commercials or uses commercial companies that fold up when attempts are made to organize them. However, Mr. Mahoney pointed out then, an increasing number of Wal-Mart commercials done by outside companies have been organized by the IATSE and many Wal-Mart commercials are now being crewed by IATSE members.

http://www.iatse-intl.org
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Good for Ditola and the international.

:woohoo: