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24 CINEMONTAGE / Q2 2017 these benefits, they seek the union's help. When the production companies don't negotiate, editors make the hard choice to strike. The prospect of preparing for a strike can be scarier than the actual event. Asking for compensation for hours worked, health care coverage and the ability to have an employer-contributed pension is a reasonable request, and worth extreme measures. So, when the call to strike finally happens, employees are unified as a team and at peace with their decision knowing that it is the right thing to do. Employers will not provide benefits unless it is made clear to them how committed the editors and assistant editors are as a team in demanding them. A strike proves that very quickly. One of the most common things I hear after a show has flipped is: "My only regret is that we didn't do it sooner." In these last four years since the Swamp People strike, what I have learned is that "I" (meaning each and every one of us individually) am the union. For the union to be successful, for us to be able to provide protections and coverage for as many people as possible, we must be willing as individuals to make commitments to each other. A commitment to talk to your fellow editors about asking collectively for union coverage; to walk away from the edit bay when the call to strike comes; to be supportive of each other, show solidarity and walk the picket lines when they form; to vote in Editors Guild Board elections, serve on the Board of Directors, volunteer for Guild committees; and to keep the conversation going at all times: "How do we create more union jobs and how do we make life better for all our members?" Our work is not done, and indeed will never be done. That is one of the reasons we formed the Membership Outreach Committee. Important issues continue to remain — such as how do we keep our assistant editors from being relegated to data managers while story producers do string outs and pull bites? Why can we not just do a "Bravo-wide" strike? But those issues and countless more will be faced, and solved, as long as we each take our responsibility to the union seriously. For myself, I am proud of my contributions to the Guild, but I am also humbled at the idea of how much more there is to do. Mostly, I hope that each and every one of us can be inspired to go forward, Post Proud and Union Strong — together. f CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 MEMBERSHIP OUTREACH COMMIT TEE #DanceBattle America @Midnight 10 Steps to a Million After the First 48 Aftermatch All in with Cam Newton The Almost Impossible Game Show Alpha8 The American Baking Competition The American Bible Challenge American Ninja Warrior America's Best Dance Crew America's Got Talent America's Greatest Makers America's Next Top Model Are You the One? 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