to gear up for what they hope will be a successful negotiation period with the studios.
Isnt it great to have a rally without a strike?
This is what solidarity looks like, Dougherty continued.
Hundreds of crew workers attend a Unity Rally in Encino, CA on Sunday.Lynette Rice
As everybody knows, Teamsters arent afraid of a fight and IATSE isnt, either.
Therell be a public disinformation campaign aimed at sowing discord amongst all of you and us.
There will be messaging around how your jobs will be replaced with technology.
Theyll say the lack of work and the extinction of pilot season is the unions fault.
But we all know the truth.
The employers are the ones who are chasing quarterly numbers instead of pursuing a sustainable business model.
Because the one thing that is predictable with these companies is …. theyre not that bright.
You think they would have learned last year when they took on two strong unions.
Those unions like the rest of us, we dont have the deep pockets.
We dont have the financing but weve got intestinal fortitude.
We got courage and conviction to take on the fight.
And I think we all agree that were desperate and being desperate is great.
Being desperate means that we dont care about consequences for our actions.
We dont care about public relations.
Its about what were going to demand and take moving forward.
Are you ready to fight?
This is our family.
Look around at somebody you dont know and tell them youve got their back.
Cuz thats what its going to take, folks, he said.
This is a crystal clear message that every union in the entertainment industrys standing here together.
