Hollywood Pantages Ushers Ratify First Contract

A minute bit over a month after reaching a tentative agreement with management, unionized ushers at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre enjoy ratified their first labor contract.

Thirty-eight union contributors voted “sure” on the proposed pact whereas 13 voted “no” in a vote that took blueprint on Monday, the ushers’ union IATSE B-192 shared with The Hollywood Reporter. The three-365 days agreement, which covers 70-uncommon workers, is retroactive to April 1 and ought to expire on March 28, 2027.

Citing conversation with coworkers about how they previously struggled to get by on “poverty” wages, usher and negotiations committee member Rachel Oshiro acknowledged, “I’m hopeful that this change shouldn’t be going to easiest lend a hand my coworkers genuinely feel extra financially stable, nonetheless genuinely feel assured in their work/employment shifting forward.”

THR has reached out to the Hollywood Pantages Theatre for comment.

The novel agreement will raise discouraged wages for the ushers from $16.78 an hour to $20 an hour presently, with compensation rising to $21.50 an hour in the final 365 days of the contract. (Ushers who enact VIP room check-in, work as trainers and/or in viewers services and products will receive a $1 an hour magnify on that pay fee.) It offers time and a half pay for workers who’re on responsibility on holidays and additional pay in the occasion that they work seven consecutive days in a row or three shifts in a single day. The novel deal institutes bereavement pay, a minimal name guarantee, a clothing stipend, language spherical name cancellations and a criticism and arbitration course of.

The Hollywood Pantages ushers unionized in April 2023 after demonstrating majority increase for becoming a member of IATSE B-192 in a National Labor Relatives Board election vote. Contract negotiations started that summer and concluded with a tentative agreement in March 2024. Beyond ushers at the Hollywood Pantages, IATSE B-192 also represents park workers at Popular Studios Hollywood and tour guides at Dodger Stadium.

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