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Hollywood Unions Join Forces On ’1000 Ways To Die’ Picket Line (Deadline Hollywood)
About 100 people turned up outside the Burbank compound of _1000 Ways To Die_
producer Original Productions on a chilly Monday morning. Sympathizers
including reps from WGA West as well as SAG and AFTRA joined the picket line,
which got underway at 8:30 AM, chanting their call for a union contract for
the Spike TV show. Today's action comes after Original fired two-dozen workers
after they voted to seek union representation; production has been stopped for
more than a week, and Friday the unions called for a strike. "This is a
successful television series and this company refuses to work with unions,"
Steve Dayan, an organizer at Teamsters Local 399, told Deadline in front of
the well-barricaded Original facility. "This company is non-union for all the
unions -- non-SAG, non-AFTRA, non-Teamster, non-DGA. These guys have a
successful television series and they're not willing to pay their crew their
benefits." Dayan added that Spike should step in to pressure Original to give
benefits as attempts to negotiate with the production company -- which also
produces reality shows _Ice Road Truckers_ and _Deadliest Catch_ for Discovery
- have gone unanswered. "Spike TV has a lot of other stuff that's shot union
and have pulled off ...