Production assistants and assistants on Netflix‘s The Four Seasons are looking to unionize.
The group is filing for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board with the goal of joining a union aligned with LiUNA Local 724, the Hollywood laborers’ group. Production Assistants United, a grassroots organizing movement, is helping organize the group and received a supermajority of signed union authorization cards from crew members on the show in October.
The Four Seasons production assistants are looking for higher pay, union healthcare, and safety standards. While the show, created by Tina Fey, airs on Netflix, Universal Television produces Four Seasons.
“Our colleagues are union members because workers unionized their positions decades ago. Now, we’re organizing to secure the same protections and to build collective power in a political…
