Katie Kilkenny at The Hollywood Reporter fills us in on a veteran Hollywood Union that is backing an ambitious push to Unionize Film and Television Production Assistants, a move that has the potential to reshape how many entry-level Creatives break into the industry.  The Hollywood Branch of Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) Local 724 is partnering with the grassroots group Production Assistants United to organize one of the last Non-Union Crew Positions on entertainment sets.  The goal is to bring roles where, classically, early-career Creatives - Set Production Assistants, Office Production Assistants, Art Production Assistants, Assistants and Production Secretaries, pay their dues into the Union fold across the country.  With around 1,800 Active and Retired Members, LiUNA currently represents Utility Workers in film and television - including Electricians, Plumbers, Carpenters and Sheet Metal Workers - a range of roles at Universal Studios Hollywood and Billboard Workers with Outfront Media.

To Read This Organizing Labor News Story, Go To: Production Assistant Union Effort Launches With LiUNA (hollywoodreporter.com)