Since 1926…

Since 1926, I.A.T.S.E. Local 611 has provided professional and trained theatrical, motion picture, entertainment, trade show, commercial and industrial production labor in the Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties.

This includes, but is not limited to, individuals trained in theatrical and arena rigging, audio/lighting console operation and programming, lighting designers, basic to advanced A/V, carpentry, stage construction, camera, all movie and television departments, projection mapping, technical directors, stage managers, etc. If there is a skill needed within the entertainment industry, Local 611 does it.

For the Employee

The purpose of the IATSE is by definition, "to achieve by organization and mutual endeavor, the improvement of the social and economic conditions of employees identified with the theatrical, moving picture, entertainment, amusement and commercial or industrial show industries of the United States and Canada." We aim, "to insure the maintenance of a fair rate of wages for services competently rendered; to assure the employment of all members in these industries; and to secure to ourselves by unity of action such benefits as are rightfully ours, pledging ourselves in all difficulties to accept wise, honorable and conservative mediation, that equity be maintained."