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union in 1998.
As the Guild's membership continued to grow, a
particularly rewarding personal moment took place
for Repola in 2010, when Local 683, the union her
father had worked for decades earlier, was facing
challenges as motion pictures and television shows
started to be shot with digital cameras instead of film.
"e union found themselves in a position
of having to merge into another local, because
they couldn't really sustain themselves any longer
financially," she explained. "ey were made up of
about a thousand people, and they were reluctant
because they didn't want to be swallowed up and
forgotten about."
Repola, during a meeting to introduce the 683
members to Local 700, got up on the stage and said
her name, and people started shouting her father's
name from the audience.
REPOLA: "It's always been about the members to me."
