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U N I O N !
I N H O N O R O F C A T H Y R E P O L A
By Kristin Marguerite DoiDge
I
t's fair to say that service on behalf of
entertainment workers is in Cathy Repola's
DNA. Aer all, her father, the late Ernie
Repola, played an important role at IATSE
Local 683 decades before his daughter
would become the first-ever female national
executive director for the Motion Picture Editors
Guild (MPEG). "I was born and raised in a union
household," the Burbank, California native said. "My
father held an elected full-time position at an IATSE
local representing film laboratory workers, so I grew
up in that environment, and I remember him talking
about union things at the dinner table, and going to
IA conventions, things like that."
Retirement beckons, but CATHY REPOLA
still has the LABOR movement in her blood
Photography by Mark Edwards
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