Inside the Hollywood Labor Rebellion: “We Have Awoken a Sleeping Giant”
BY GARY BAUM, KATIE KILKENNY | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Business According to union organizers and observers, the pandemic, streaming and corporate consolidation collided in 2021 to supercharge the activist playbook — and this is only the beginning. In his dozen years at IATSE Local USA 829 — United Scenic Artists — national business agent Carl Mulert says he’s never seen members as engaged as they are now, with more calls coming in to his office and heightened attendance at the organization’s meetings. “We have awoken a sleeping giant,” he says, explaining that the pandemic has reframed expectations about worker quality of life…