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Colorado. Workers at these facilities were brought into the IATSE
family by the 2004 collective bargaining agreement.
As President Short noted at the time, “This is one of the most
significant contracts of the last several years for the International.
This contract provides consistent and equal benefit contributions
for our members regardless of their geographic location.”
In fact, Global Spectrum’s reach is huge. It is part of one
of the world’s largest sports and entertainment conglomerates,
Comcast-Spectacor, which also owns the Philadelphia Flyers,
the Philadelphia 76ers, Comcast SportsNet, several minor league
baseball and hockey teams, Patron Solutions (a full-service ticketing
and marketing product for public assembly facilities), and
other affiliated companies.
In 2007, IATSE and Global
Spectrum negotiated another
three-year agreement increasing
membership further by covering
workers in sixteen facilities
throughout the United States and Canada ranging in size from
3,000 to 20,000 seats.
Activities spurred by these national agreements included increased
job opportunities, improved conditions, the introduction
of many Locals to the IATSE National Benefit Plans, and
a new charter issued in South East Virginia. The Locals, with
assistance from the International, have organized a number of
new members have implemented training to increase jurisdiction
within the Locals.
The 2007 agreement also included recognition of the Hair
and Make-Up Department, wage increases in each year of the
contract retroactive and compounded, and increases in contributions
to the health and welfare and pension funds, as well
gains in jurisdiction and staffing.
And as Global Spectrum has continued to expand on the
number of venues it manages up to the present day, it has introduced
IATSE into markets and facilities that have been historically
hard to organize.
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