Ep174: Hollywood on the Record: The Real Story Behind @IA_Stories | with Marisa Shipley & Amy Thurlow

<p>At the epicenter of the conversation last August during the most contentious portion of the IATSE contract negotiation was perhaps the <strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/ia_stories/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">IA stories</a></strong> Instagram account where literally hundreds of thousands of <strong><a href="https://iatse.net/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">IATSE</a></strong> members discovered they weren't alone in enduring the horrors of working in Hollywood: Burnout, abusive working conditions, and sacrificing everything - including even their lives - to simply keep their jobs in the entertainment industry was apparently everyone’s story. Pandora’s Box opened, and it was clear people demanded change. Among those people are my guests today from <strong><a href= "https://www.ialocal871.org/Reel-Equity" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Local 871</a></strong> - Script Coordinator <strong><a href= "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13258946/?ref_=fn_al_nm_4" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Amy Thurlow</a></strong>, and Art Department Coordinator <strong><a href= "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8845571/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Marisa Shipley</a></strong>.</p> <p>Marisa Shipley is the President of Local 871, as well as one of the founders of the IA Stories page. She has been on the front lines of the living wage and pay equity fight since 2018 and is committed to finding a collaborative approach to tackling these issues.</p> <p>Amy Thurlow was elected to represent Script Coordinators on the Board of Directors of Local 871 in December of 2021, and has been outspoken about the pay equity issues that have plagued her classification for decades.</p> <p>This conversation has been a long time in the making, and we go deep into the stories of abusive practices in their local, the criminally low wages they have endured, and the systemic nature of these problems across many other IATSE locals. You'll also hear Marisa describe the severe toll that running the IA stories page took on her health