‘SNL’ Post-Production Workers Form Union Through Motion Picture Editors Guild
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Editors at NBC’s iconic Saturday Night Live have successfully organized with the Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG), Local 700 of IATSE.
The post-production workers are part of SNL’s film unit, which creates the show’s prerecorded segments, including its popular music video parodies.
The post-production crew won union recognition pursuant to a card-check agreement with NBCUniversal. An arbitrator independently verified that a majority of employees had elected union representation.
The size of the show’s film unit fluctuates from week to week, but the group now represented by MPEG will range from between roughly a dozen to 20 part-time employees. “This talented editorial crew works at breakneck speed under extraordinarily tight schedules in order to ensure Saturday Night Live‘s timely satire makes it to the screen each week,” said Louis Bertini, MPEG’s Second Vice President, representing its New York membership. “We salute them for standing together to have a voice on the job.
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