IATSE Offers White House Its Venues and Workforce to Help Vaccinate America
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorIATSE, the union that represents the workers behind the scenes, has reached out to the White House and its COVID Response Team offering their venues and workforce to help build and convert vaccination sites.A few weeks ago, IATSE tweeted, “Turn live venues into COVID vaccination sites and use union labor to set it up.”With the new administration laying out a National Strategy and Response to the pandemic, Matthew Loeb, IATSE’s international president, shared an open letter to the White House offering its infrastructure and labor in the effort to build or convert vaccination sites across the country.The letter said, “As the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), we are the largest labor