‘The Pitt’ Production Assistants Vote to Unionize In Major Move

Production assistants have emerged victorious in their attempt to unionize The Pitt.

Support staffers on the second season of the HBO Max medical drama opted to join a union aligned with LiUNA Local 724, the Hollywood laborers’ group, in a landmark election that took place Friday. Participating production and office assistants unanimously voted to join the union in the National Labor Relations Board election in a clear show of support for the effort, the labor group announced.

“The PAs on this show are real professionals and we bring our A game every day, so it means a lot that we can now collectively bargain for the same rights and benefits that everyone else gets,” set production assistant Michael McWilliam said in a statement.

Added an anonymous production assistant on the show, “A unanimous vote is as undeniable as the rights we are fighting for. A true ‘union’ show and industry cannot exist with nonunion labor.”

According to the group, The Pitt is the first major TV production where production assistants and assistants have unionized. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to HBO Max’s parent company, Warner Bros., for comment.

“LiUNA Local 724 is honored to be at the tip of the spear representing those who long have deserved respect and dignity behind the scenes here in Hollywood, but who have so long been denied that recognition in this place we call Hollywood,” said Local 724’s business manager Alex Aguilar in a statement. “This is only the beginning.”

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