IATSE Informational Picket Targets Trump, Apprentice

apprentice-1On Dec. 16, Local 600 members in New York joined the IATSE for an informational and area standards picket of the live broadcast of the season finale of The Apprentice at Alice Tully Hall in the Lincoln Center.

The campaign included sandwich boards and the distribution of more than 1,000 handbills to alert the public that Mark Burnett Productions, in association with Trump Productions, LLC does not pay area standard wages and benefits as established by the IATSE.

This picket did not target any of the workers at the Lincoln Center, but was intended to inform the public of the substandard labor practices of the two production companies. Following a lengthy process of investigation, the picket was called and organized on Dec. 15.

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