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# Lights, Camera, (Labor) Action!
- URL: https://www.rangemedia.co/podcasts/lights-camera-labor-action/
- Published: 2021-10-13T06:54:29.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-13T06:54:29.000Z
- Description: We won’t call it an “emergency” pod because the news is kinda good. We’d call it Breaking news … but it’s not really that either.
- Author: RANGE
- Tags: Podcast, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-02-19 03:03

We won’t call it an “emergency” pod because the news is kinda good. We’d call it **Breaking news** … but it’s not really that either.

**WHAT IT IS:** a conversation with Rebecca Cook, proud Spokanite and Vice President of IATSE Local 488, which serves film and TV crews in Washington, Oregon, Montana and North Idaho.

We discuss:

- The breadth of entertainment workers in our area
- How a 12-hour “shoot day” is really a 16-hour work day.
- How grueling hours lead to unsafe working conditions and potentially deadly commutes.
- How “new media” like Netflix, Amazon & Disney+ continue to pay people poorly, even as they cross a *quarter-trillion dollars* of market value, thanks to outdated contracts they are trying desperately to maintain at the expense of workers’ health and safety.
- The overwhelming majority of workers who are now saying “enough is enough.”

BUT ALSO:

- Some seriously encouraging news about how taking this stand seems to be working.

## Further Reading

- Working conditions on film shoots: IAStories on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/ia%5Fstories/?hl=en&ref=rangemedia.co) & [Twitter](https://twitter.com/IA%5FStories?ref=rangemedia.co)
- Solid background on [how we got here](https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/iatse-contract-talks-amptp-hollywood-strike-1235086185/?ref=rangemedia.co).
- Track this fast-moving story at the industry trades [Deadline](https://deadline.com/results/?ref=rangemedia.co#?q=iatse) & [Variety](https://variety.com/results/?ref=rangemedia.co#?q=iatse)

## A Smidge of Action

- An [exhaustive list of resources and ways to help](https://linktr.ee/IAStories?ref=rangemedia.co).

### It’s one of our more hopeful episodes in a while! Enjoy!