In the hardest year, Hollywood’s unions had their finest hour. Together and separately, they navigated those first uncertain days of the entertainment industry shutdown a year ago this week and came together with the major companies to develop protocols to get their members back to work as safely as possible.
Their rallying cry was, “We’re all in this together.”By the end of that first terrible week, tens of thousands of their members would find themselves suddenly unemployed, with no end in sight to the staggering loss of jobs.A report from the nonprofit Americans for the Arts estimates that 63% of the arts work force remained fully unemployed as of December and that 95% had reported income loss because of the pandemic.
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