{"id":428183,"date":"2026-08-09T15:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T15:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428183\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T15:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T15:56:14","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-union-film-crews-deserve-just-as-much-support-as-union-actors-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428183\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Union film crews deserve just as much support as union actors do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aug. 9, 2026 7 AM PT <\/p>\n

To the editor: Are union actors worth more than a union crew?<\/p>\n

The article about the Entertainment Evergreen Fund being developed by Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Kathryn Barger highlights that \u201csmall films shot locally would mean more roles\u201d for SAG-AFTRA actors (\u201cL.A. County weighs a grant fund to keep indie films from leaving,\u201d<\/a> Aug. 5). Do IATSE crews deserve any less from the city in which we live, vote and pay taxes?<\/p>\n

IATSE, the union that represents below-the-line craftspeople, has low-budget contracts available for small-budget films that afford union crew members a living wage, healthcare and pension provisions. For directors and producers who need creative solutions for working on a limited budget, there\u2019s no substitute for an experienced, talented union crew.<\/p>\n

IATSE members are losing homes and livelihoods, and need the help of the county supervisors no less than SAG-AFTRA actors and struggling filmmakers. I hope the supervisors ensure that there are requirements in the legislation to support our entertainment unions, which breathe life into the film industry in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Suzan Lowitz, Hollywood
This writer is a script supervisor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 9, 2026 7 AM PT To the editor: Are union actors worth more than a union crew?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7812,1758,2072,1902,1743,170449,48,52,51,1838,57455,47,50,49,63,170450,170451,170448,170452,170447,170446],"class_list":["post-428183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-county-supervisor","tag-director","tag-editor","tag-healthcare","tag-hollywood","tag-iatse-crew","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-letter","tag-living-wage","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-much-support","tag-pension-provision","tag-sag-aftra-actor","tag-suzan-lowitz","tag-union-actor","tag-union-film-crew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}