Posts tagged LiUNA! Local 724
‘Abbott Elementary’ Production Assistants Unanimously Vote to Unionize
December 15, 2025 // Twelve workers in total may be impacted by the vote, though the employer may still file objections to union certification in the next few days and the eligibility of one potential member has been questioned and will be decided at a later date. The show represents the fourth Warner Bros. Television production that the union has successfully organized this year. Production Assistants United previously unionized The Pitt (where it now has a labor contract) and on Dec. 4 won NLRB elections for the shows All American and Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage.
Production Assistants Working on Netflix’s ‘The Four Seasons’ File For Union Election
November 21, 2025 // This is the latest organizing move from Production Assistants United, which has organized six productions in three months, including The Pitt and Abbott Elementary. The Pitt voted to unionize in September, becoming the first major TV production where production assistants and assistants had done so. With the reopening of the federal government, Production Assistants United plans on refiling with the NLRB for union elections across several shows and eyeing an upcoming filing for a Universal show.
‘The Pitt’ Production Assistants Vote to Unionize In Major Move
September 11, 2025 // The current slowdown in production has hit PAs particularly hard, rendering job opportunities scarcer and more competitive. Higher-ups like assistant directors and locations professionals have stepped back down into PA roles to keep working.
‘The Pitt’ Production Assistants Launch Landmark Unionization Drive (Exclusive)
July 28, 2025 // Production Assistants United claims that a “supermajority” of the show’s production assistants and assistants has signed union authorization cards. That was accomplished, they say, due to guerrilla organizing tactics inspired in part by the successful union drive at Amazon’s Staten Island fulfillment center. For a few weeks, organizers have pitched a tent outside of a parking structure adjacent to the Warner Bros. studio lot where crew members and background actors tend to park. Arriving as early as 4:45 a.m. in the morning and leaving as late as 8 p.m. at night, the group says they’ve struck up conversations with all manner of crew members on The Pitt, who were easily recognizable because they were wearing scrubs (donned by The Pitt workers in case they are caught on camera).
Production Assistants Launch Ambitious Bid for Unionization With LiUNA
September 3, 2024 // The group acknowledges that they’re ramping up their organizing at a time when major Hollywood firms are cutting costs and production work in L.A., at least, still hasn’t fully rebounded. But they’re confident that they will eventually succeed in bringing a union to production assistants, even as they and their colleagues have been affected by the ongoing contraction. “It’s a new chapter in our organizing effort with the strength of LiUNA. We are so confident that we are going to get our union,” says Ravens.