Editors Guild Cuts Members’ Dues By 50% In Response To COVID-19 Shutdown
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deadline.comBy David Robb Labor Editor The Editors Guild, IATSE Local 600, has reduced union dues by 50% for all members for the second quarter of 2020.
The move was taken after a unanimous vote of the guild’s board of directors, meeting remotely, in response to the industry’s COVID-19 shutdown. “We are indeed facing an unprecedented crisis, certainly unlike anything our union has ever had to endure,” said Local 600 president Alan Heim and national executive director Cathy Repola in a joint statement emailed to the guild’s 8,300 members.
The motion to trim dues also included waiving the $7 processing fee for paying by credit card. The guild says that though many members have been thrown out of work, “some have transitioned to work at home or have
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