The Workers Organization of Northeast Ohio

11/06/2021

It's not a worker shortage, it's a good job shortage. Pay fairly. Treat workers well.

10/23/2021

We will continue to fight for workers right and job safety. This should have never happen.

This is NOT an Alec Baldwin story, this is is a story about workplace safety. IATSE Local 600 DP, Halyna Hutchins, died today because she showed up to work. Her children were orphaned today because she showed up for work. She deserves more than a moment of silence. She deserves every crew member in this industry putting down their tools and walking off the job. Shut it down. This has to stop.

There have been other high-profile fatalities on film sets involving prop guns and sloppy safety measures.

In 1993, Brandon Lee, 28, son of the late martial-arts star Bruce Lee, died after being hit by a .44-caliber slug while filming a death scene for the movie “The Crow.” The gun was supposed to have fired a blank, but an autopsy turned up a bullet lodged near his spine.

Bruce Lee’s daughter, Shannon Lee, tweeted: “Our hearts go out to the family of Halyna Hutchins and to Joel Souza and all involved in the incident on “Rust.” No one should ever be killed by a gun on a film set. Period.”

In 1984, actor Jon-Erik Hexum died after shooting himself in the head with a prop gun blank while pretending to play Russian roulette with a .44 Magnum on the set of the television series “Cover Up.”

Serious and sometimes fatal film set accidents are rare but have increased in recent years.

A 38-year-old crew member last month sustained critical injuries after a major fall at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood during construction for the Netflix film “Me Time,” which stars Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg.

“The Walking Dead” stuntman John Bernecker died in 2017 from injuries sustained while filming a scene in Georgia for the AMC series’ eighth season.

In the same state, crew member Sarah Jones was killed in a 2014 train accident during the making of “Midnight Rider,” and her family was awarded $11.2 million after filing a wrongful-death lawsuit.

A year earlier, a helicopter pilot, camera operator and crew member were killed in a helicopter crash in Acton during the filming of a reality series for Discovery Channel, the worst film-set accident in California in three decades.

Every year crew members are killed falling asleep while driving home from outrageously long shoot days.

Nobody should have to die making Films and Television.

Thanks to Robert Daraio

10/17/2021

We stand with John Deere workers and all workers who are on strike

The walkout is the latest by an emboldened labor movement and affects 14 plants in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Colorado and Georgia.

10/15/2021

We will always support workers who go out on strike, we stand with the Kellogg workers.

Workers at Kellogg’s are proud to feed the country with the cereal they make, but they say that the company’s exploitative two-tier employment system keeps many of their coworkers from earning a fair wage.

09/05/2021

Workers got what they have because they put up a fight! Happy Labor Day!

08/21/2021

We support Nabisco workers, please don't buy Nabisco products until the strike has been won.

08/03/2021

If you live in the 11 district of Ohio please vote for Nina Turner for congress later on today. Also, bring your family and friends who live in the 11 district of Ohio to vote for NIna. $15 an hour, end at-will workers contract, safe working conditions for all workers, and end the practice of employers calling off workers with no compensation. WORKERS NEED NINA IN CONGRESS!

07/18/2021

We fully support the Frito - Lay workers. Please don't buy Frito-Lay products until the strike has won.

05/01/2021

HAPPY MAY DAY TO ALL WORKERS!

It’s International Workers Day (May Day)! Today, we celebrate all the workers who are fighting for worker power.

04/28/2021

Yeah, Nobody wants to work for McCrappy wages. Were not loving it.

According to McDonald's, they're having trouble recruiting employees. Can't imagine why.



h/t IATSE

04/26/2021

This is why we need to change things.

The plight of grocery workers has raised questions about retail labor conditions and the responsibility of corporations in worker deaths from the coronavirus.