REPORT OF THE GENERAL EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETINGS BOOK 2 JOANNE M. SANDERS, Thirteenth Vice President REPORT OF THE and Director of Tradeshow and Display GENERAL EXECUTIVE In addition to the members of the Board, those present included: International Trustees Patricia A. BOARD MEETING White, Carlos Cota and Andrew C. Oyaas; CLC Delegate Siobhan Vipond; Director of Communications Jonas Loeb; Co-Directors of Broadcast Steve Belsky and HELD AT THE RENAISSANCE Fran O’Hern; Assistant Directors of Motion Picture DALLAS HOTELDALLAS, TEXAS and Television Production Daniel Mahoney and Vanessa JANUARY 27 – 31, 2020 Holtgrewe; Assistant Director of Stagecraft D. Joseph Hartnett; Assistant Director of Education and Training CALL TO ORDER Robyn Cavanagh; Political/Legislative Director Tyler McIntosh; Assistant Political/Legislative Director Claire The regular Mid-Winter meeting of the General Pozek; International Representatives Ben Adams, Kevin Executive Board of the International Alliance of Theatrical Allen, Steve Aredas, Christopher “Radar” Bateman, Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists Jim Brett, Justin Conway, Dan’l Cook, Jamie Fry, Don and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Gandolini, Jr., Ron Garcia, David Garretson, John Gorey, Canada convened at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, January 27, Benjamin Hague, Krista Hurdon, Kent Jorgensen, Mark 2020 in the Landmark Ballroom of the Renaissance Dallas Kiracofe, Daniel Little, Tanya Mahn, Peter Marley, Hotel, Dallas, Texas. Rachel McLendon, Julia Neville, Jeremy Salter, Stasia Savage, Allison Smartt, Lyle Trachtenberg, Wade Tyree, ROLL CALL and Jason Vergnano; Special Representative John Gates, and Communications Coordinator Steve Chaussee; Staff General Secretary-Treasurer James B. Wood called members Leslie DePree, MaryAnn Kelly, Asha Nandlal, the roll and recorded the following members present: Jimmy Rainey, Nate Richmond, Vanessa Stacey, Alex Tomais and Wesley Vega. MATTHEW D. LOEB, International President Also in attendance at various open sessions of the JAMES B. WOOD, General Secretary-Treasurer Board meetings were representative(s) of the following MICHAEL BARNES, First Vice President Locals: One, New York-Westchester-Putman Counties, Nassau/Suffolk Counties of Long Island, NY; 2, Chicago, THOM DAVIS, Second Vice President IL; 4, Brooklyn and Queens, NY; 5, Cincinnati-Hamilton- Fairfield-Springdale-Oxford, OH; 7, Denver-Boulder, DAMIAN PETTI, Third Vice President CO; 8, Philadelphia, PA/Camden-Mercer County, NJ; 11, Boston-Waltham, MA; 13, Minneapolis-St. Cloud- MICHAEL F. MILLER, JR., Fourth Vice President Little Falls-Brainerd-St. John’s University-College and Director of Motion Picture and Television of St. Benedict-St. Paul, MN; 15, Seattle-Everett- Production Olympia-Tacoma-Bremerton-Bellingham-Anacortes- Mt.Vernon-Sedro Wooley-Port Angeles-Burlington- DANIEL DI TOLLA, Fifth Vice President and Concrete-Stanwood-Marysville-Longview, WA; 16, San Director of Stagecraft Francisco-Marin County-Santa Rosa-Lake Mendocino- JOHN R. FORD, Sixth Vice President Sonoma-Napa County-San Mateo County-Palo Alto, CA; 17, Louisville-Frankfort-Danville, KY; 19, Baltimore, MD; 21, JOHN M. LEWIS, Seventh Vice President and Newark-Middlesex-Mercer-Ocean and Union Counties- Director of Canadian Affairs Asbury Park-Long Branch, NJ; 22, Washington, DC/Washington DC Suburbs, MD/Northern CRAIG P. CARLSON, Eighth Vice President Virginia; 27, Cleveland-Ashtabula-Loraine-Elyria- Sandusky-Erie County, OH; 28, Portland- PHIL LOCICERO, Ninth Vice President Salem, OR; 30, Indianapolis-Kokomo-Richmond- Earlham College-Logansport-Peru-Connersville-Muncie- C. FAYE HARPER, Tenth Vice President Portland-Anderson, IN; 33, Los Angeles-Long Beach- COLLEEN A. GLYNN, Eleventh Vice President Pasadena-Santa Monica, CA; 44, Hollywood, CA; 51, Houston-Galveston, TX; 52, States of New York/ JAMES J. CLAFFEY, JR., Twelfth Vice President New Jersey/Connecticut/Northern DE/Greater PA; 1 58, Toronto, ON; 59, Jersey City, NJ; 74, Southern also worked with several labor unions to shape legislation Connecticut; 80, Hollywood, CA; 110, Chicago, IL; 112, and policy for the benefit of working people. She wished Oklahoma City, OK/ Wichita Falls, TX; 119, San Francisco those present a successful week and welcomed attendees Bay Area, CA; 122, San Diego, CA; 126, Ft. Worth- to the great city of Dallas. Arlington-Denton-Gainesville-Grapevine, TX; 127, Dallas- Grand Prairie-McKinney, TX; 129, Hamilton-Brantford, On behalf of the Board, President Loeb expressed his ON; 161, States of NY, NJ, CT, AL, LA, MI, OH, TN, gratitude to the Host Locals for all their hospitality and and IL; 205, Austin, TX; 209, State of Ohio; hard work in assisting with the arrangements for making 212, Calgary, AB; 306, New York, NY; 311, Middletown- this meeting run smoothly. Newburgh-Kingston, NY; 322, Charlotte-Greenville, NC; 347, Columbia, SC; 357, Kitchener-Stratford-Cambridge- INTRODUCTIONS Guelph-Waterloo, ON; 411, Province of Ontario; 461, St. Catherines-Welland-Niagara Falls, ON; 476, Chicago, IL; President Loeb introduced the following new 477, State of Florida; 478, State of Louisiana/Southern members of the Official Family: Mississippi/Mobile, AL; 479, State of Georgia; 480, State of New Mexico; 481, New England Area; 484, States of TX Justin Conway, and OK; 487, Mid-Atlantic Area; 488, Pacific Northwest; International Representative 491, States of North/South Carolina-Savannah, GA; 492, State Of Tennessee/Northern Mississippi; 494, Puerto Justin has been a union representative and organizer Rico/U.S. Virgin Islands; 514, Province of Quebec; 540, for over twenty years, having served since 2005 at IATSE Baton Rouge, LA; 600, United States; 631, Orlando-Cape Local 600. Prior to his time at Local 600, Justin worked with Canaveral-Cocoa-Melbourne-Lake Buena Vista, FL; 632, the U.S.W., A.F.S.C.M.E., The International Brotherhood Northeast New Jersey; 634, Sudbury and North Bay, of Teamsters, and the AFL-CIO’s Organizing Institute, ON; 665, State of Hawaii; 667, Eastern Canada; 669, where he helped to train other organizers. He has a Western Canada; 671, Province of Newfoundland and Computer Science degree with an emphasis in the arts, Labrador; 695, Hollywood, CA; 700, United States; 705, has completed various certifications in Labor Studies Hollywood, CA; 706, Hollywood, CA; 720, Las Vegas, NV; from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is a 728, Hollywood, CA; 729, Hollywood, CA; 751, New York, graduate of the I.A. Officer Institute. Justin’s primary NY; 764, New York, NY and Vicinity; 769, Chicago, IL; area of responsibility during his time at Local 600 was 780, Chicago, IL; 796, State of Texas; 798, New York, NY; working with members in Motion Picture Production in 800, Los Angeles, CA; 803, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX; 822, the Midwest, although during his time with Local 600 he Toronto, ON; 835, Orlando, FL; 839, Hollywood, CA; 856, serviced and organized members all across the country. Province of Manitoba; 871, Hollywood, CA; 873, Toronto, Justin has experience negotiating and organizing with ON; 884, Hollywood, CA; 887, Seattle, WA; 891, British Local 600 represented broadcast news affiliates in Detroit, Columbia/Yukon Territory; 906, Charlottetown, PE; 924, Cleveland, Portland, and Seattle. Justin is an avid back Stratford, ON; USA829, United States; ATPAM, New country hiker and camper and serves as President of his York, NY; B27, Cleveland, OH; and B906, Charlottetown, local Parks Board and is a member of the National Eagle PE. Scout Association. HOST LOCALS Tanya Mahn, International Representative At the opening session of the Board meeting representatives of Host Locals 127, 484, 600, 700, 796, Tanya comes to IATSE with twenty-five years of 800, 803, and USA829 appeared to officially welcome the experience in the labor movement both in California and members of the General Executive Board, Official Family, nationally. She originally became involved as a volunteer local union representatives and guests to Dallas, Texas. Organizing Committee member on her own organizing On behalf of the Host Locals, Local 127 Business Agent drive with the UAW for academic student employees Gregg Pearlman thanked the General Executive Board throughout the University of California system. After for the opportunity to host this meeting. graduating from UCLA, she continued on that campaign becoming the Northern California Coordinator responsible The Official Family was also welcomed by for organizing and bargaining during the first contract Lorraine Birabil, lifelong Democrat running for State fight. Representative, during the Host Locals’ Breakfast Monday morning. Lorraine served in various capacities After a historic first contract at UC led to calls from at federal, state, and local levels of government. She has academic student employees across the country who were 2 interested in organizing their own unions, she worked for Steven Chaussee, ten years helping people gain power to improve their Communications Coordinator workplaces from California to New York as an organizer and negotiator with the UAW. In addition to working A native Minnesotan, Steven learned about the with university workers, she also spent several years importance of unions at an early age from his firebrand organizing in many other industries, including being grandfather. Later in life, he discovered his passion for the lead organizer on the successful campaign for 40,000 the work of the labor movement while composing his home-based child care providers in Michigan.