Photo by Local 600 Still Photographer Scott Everett White When speaking with Kali Harrison, three core refrains surface again and again: the value of communication, the need for empathy, and the importance of service. These qualities, Harrison insists, are the key ingredients to creating and sustaining a successful career as a labor union Business Representative. […]
On her cellphone, inside her car, taking a break from walking the picket line in the midday Georgia heat with her union brothers and sisters (with literal bells on her shoes to make good trouble), IATSE Local 600 Central Region Business Representative Heather Burgett-Svanevik is the personification of union solidarity, grit, and savvy. Her mission […]
They’ve only been on staff for less than a year, yet two of the Central Region’s newest business reps plan on spending the next decade at ICG. That’s how much Heather Crowell and Yvette Marche’ Cooper say they are loving their new jobs. “I’ve already told [Central Region Director] Theresa Khouri that I’m here for […]
The Local 600 baseball caps have already made their way to the members at TV news stations in the Pacific Northwest. Raquel Ruiz, the Local 600 business rep who sent those hats, expects to make her way up north soon too. “They’re getting ready to bargain – electing their bargaining team and distributing the hats […]
Local 600’s two newest Western Region Business Reps know the craft as well as the contracts. Both Ryan Sullivan and Darby Newman enjoyed lengthy and successful careers behind the camera before changing direction and embracing the opportunity to serve the Local 600 membership. They share other similarities. Both are West Coast transplants and married fathers […]
The career of Vinnie Galindez perfectly captures the strength of union brotherhood and sisterhood. Galindez first joined Local 600 in March of 1981 and worked as a trainee, learning the ropes of being a loader, focus puller and finally, in 1998, a camera operator on the movie “Bringing Out the Dead.” “On my two films […]
Anna Nowlan received a primer on the importance of workers standing together in solidarity early on in life. Born in El Salvador to a family living in poverty, she witnessed her parents’ struggle to provide for their children and their subsequent participation in the labor movement, becoming community activists in the 1980s to fight for […]