IATSE has announced that it has reached an agreement with the producers of Beast Games season three, covering more than 500 crew members working on the production in Greenville, North Carolina.
Under the agreement, crew members will receive back pay and benefits for pre-production work already completed, and the production will remain covered under the union agreement for both the current season and future seasons.
The previous season of the competition-style reality series — co-created and hosted by YouTube personality MrBeast — was produced under IATSE agreements. But when producers began work on season three as a non-union production, IATSE members and Local unions across the country mounted a coordinated organizing campaign to bring the show back under union coverage.
“Organizing season three of Beast Games boiled down to IATSE solidarity in this difficult production environment,” said Michael F. Miller Jr., director of IATSE’s Motion Picture and Television Production Department. “As employment in our industry continues to face challenges from predatory employers looking to take advantage of the industry contraction, our members and their Local leaders are showing that they have the strength to stand together to maintain standards in the face of repeated attacks on their livelihoods by greedy employers.”
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