Mid-Summer Virtual General Executive Board Meeting:
Mid-Summer Virtual General Executive Board Meeting
Both President Scott and I participated/represented Local 769 at the IATSE Mid-Summer GEB sessions this past Tuesday/Wednesday. It was originally scheduled to be held in Seattle this week but was changed to a virtual structure due to our current pandemic situation. It was an intense, detailed and at times highly charged format President Loeb called to order and requested updates/reports from several key divisions of our IA. The following committees gave presentations focusing primarily on the challenges along with IA responses associated with the COVID-19 situation. The overall theme was focused on the current political climate issues as well as safe back to work plan for all in our alliance. A detailed summary of all reports will be included in the next edition of the IATSE Bulletin:.
1. IATSE Financials & IATSENBF: General Secretary Treasurer James Woods
2. Defense Fund Report
3. Stagecraft Division: VP Daniel Di Tolla
4. Motion Picture and Television Department: VP Michael Miller
5. Trade Show Division: VP Joanne Sanders
6. Communications Committee Update: Director Jonas Loeb ,
7. Women's Committee Update: VP Joanne Sanders
8. Education & Training Department Update: Director Patricia White
9. Canadian Affairs: VP John Lewis
10 .Legal Affairs: Samantha Delaney
11. Broadcast Department: Representative: Fran Hern
12. Disaster Response Committee: Representative Trustee Andrew Oyaas
13. IATSE Pride Committee: Representative Nate Richmond
14. IATSE Political Department/Legislative Affairs: Director Tyler McIntosh
President Loeb extended his regards to all members and reiterated his commitment to all of our members during this unprecedented and challenging time.
A special thanks and shout out of acknowledgement to Sister Cheryl Weber who agreed to assist and represent L769 as our assigned Delegate at the 2020 Illinois AFL-CIO Convention. This important meeting unfortunately overlapped with our GEB, and L769 was represented at both!