Local 52 IATSE Non-Union Discrimination Settlement Notice

In order to escape the severe consequences certain to result from its imminent hearing before a federal  administrative law judge in late 2022, Local 52, IATSE, agreed, among other things, to terminate what was effectively a labor trafficking program exploiting and violating the civil rights of thousands of non-union laborers and craftspeople.

As a result of the anti-union conduct of four I.A.T.S.E. union member department heads on behalf of their AICP commericial production company employers, twelve AICP-member companies agreed to a financial settlement, and to email the following NLRB Notice and pledge to their employees. The AICP production company respondents are:

Radical Media, Arts & Sciences, Biscuit Filmworks, CMS Productions, Division 7, M ss ng P eces [d.b.a. Something Ideal], Morton Jankel Zander, O Positive, Park Pictures, Piro, Inc., Smuggler, and Spare Parts, Inc.

Form NLRB-502 (UC)—the Unit Clarification Petition—is used by the National Labor Relations Board to evaluate whether to exclude certain employees and job classifications from an union's existing bargaining unit. Managers and supervisors are generally excluded from union membership because they have the authority to act on behalf of the employer in directing, hiring, firing, or otherwise managing employees. The rationale for barring supervisors from union membership is to prevent conflicts of interest that arise from the divided loyalties of a union member-supervisor, who, if permitted to join a union, will have irreconcilable duties towards both the union and the employer.