Organizer Ben Speight discusses bringing production workers back into IATSE Local 839, expanding its jurisdiction beyond L.A. County for the first time how workers today are showing they 'are not the animation workers of the recent past.'
One key union staffer during this push has been TAG organizer Ben Speight, who joined the Local in the fall of 2020 and is based just north of Atlanta.
A labor organizer since he was a student at Valdosta State University in southern Georgia, Speight worked on behalf of home health care workers in Michigan, hotel workers in California and bus drivers and sanitation workers in Georgia with the Teamsters Local 728 before joining TAG. According to Speight, organizing isn’t just about tackling “hot shops,” or places where workers want to organize, but about strategically choosing sites that build leverage and strength for the union overall.
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