Commercial production supervisors and others seeking to unionize will begin picketing today in Los Angeles for health and pension benefits. More than 600 commercial production workers ? coordinators, supervisors and line producers ? have signed cards seeking to join the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 174, which represents mostly white-collar office workers, including those employed by Hollywood studios. The production companies, however, have refused to recognize the union as the representative for these workers, most of whom are freelancers.
See "Commercial production workers plan to picket", Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times, December 10, 2006