Production assistants on three shows produced by Warner Bros. Television — Abbott Elementary, George & Mandy’s First Marriage and All American — have ratified their first union contracts.
The staffers, about 15 in total, unanimously voted to ratify the three separate contracts in a vote that ended on June 23rd. Their union, Production Assistants United, is affiliated with the Hollywood laborers’ union LiUNA Local 724.
“You cannot run a production without production assistants,” Production Assistants United director of organizing Ethan Ravens said in a statement. “The idea that the workers holding productions together should have a union, a voice, health care and a pension is not radical. It is inevitable. These contracts prove the momentum is real, and it is only going to keep growing.”