{"id":6080,"date":"2026-04-10T14:43:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/no-unions-dont-make-movie-sets-safer\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:43:31","slug":"no-unions-dont-make-movie-sets-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/no-unions-dont-make-movie-sets-safer\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Unions Don\u2019t Make Movie Sets Safer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unions love nothing more than blaming problems on non-union operations.<\/span><\/p>\n

So it was no surprise last weekend when the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, best known as IATSE, blamed the lack of union representation on the set of The Daily Wire\u2019s new action film when movie star Jonathan Majors <\/span>fell through a prop window<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>\u201cnearly died.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Well, not exactly. Majors only fell a few feet. He\u2019s totally fine. In the video of the \u201caccident\u201d posted by Deadline you can hear Majors immediately asking, \u201cDid we shoot it? Use it!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

READ MORE: Daily Wire 1, Hollywood Union 0: Production Wraps On Jonathan Majors Action Movie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Still, IATSE, the self-proclaimed \u201cunion behind entertainment,\u201d wants people to believe that if they were there, nobody could have possibly gotten hurt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Except, here\u2019s the thing: IATSE is full of it. It\u2019s all a game to twist producer Dallas Sonnier\u2019s arm into entering a collective bargaining agreement with the union. And it\u2019s a game <\/span>the union lost<\/span><\/a>, because Sonnier \u201cdoesn\u2019t negotiate with communists.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But let\u2019s go back to the issue of the unions and safety. <\/span><\/p>\n

Forget for a moment that a Screen Actors Guild representative was present on set the entire time and had no safety concerns. Forget, again, that Majors only took a small tumble and was totally fine. Let\u2019s pretend Sonnier had caved to the union\u2019s demands and given them everything they wanted. That would have prevented even this minor injury, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, sure. Nobody ever gets hurt on union-run Hollywood sets \u2014 at least if you don\u2019t count the \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d where Tom Cruise broke his ankle jumping off a building.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yes, IATSE was on set for that. It\u2019s on set for every Hollywood movie. It\u2019s unclear whether anyone walked off after that accident, which was so bad that they even included it in the film\u2019s promo. Shout out to Cruise, who had the same reaction as Majors and immediately told the director to use the footage. He kept going after he knew he snapped his ankle, because he knew it was the perfect shot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

IATSE was also probably on the set of \u201cDjango Unchained\u201d when Leonardo DiCaprio slammed a table so hard that he smashed a prop glass and bled all over his co-star, Kerry Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s unlikely that anyone walked off that set. In fact, it\u2019s said the crew broke out into applause after director Quentin Tarantino called \u201ccut.\u201d And Tarantino put DiCaprio and his blood-soaked hand into the final cut of the movie.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On the set of \u201cCast Away,\u201d Tom Hanks ignored a small cut on his leg and developed an infection that nearly killed him. He was rushed to the hospital, and production was shut down for weeks as Hanks recovered. Again, it\u2019s unclear whether any crew left the set in Fiji in protest.<\/span><\/p>\n

George Clooney was so badly injured performing a stunt on the set of 2005\u2019s \u201cSyriana\u201d that he considered suicide. It was during a torture scene, and Clooney flipped the chair he was tied to and cracked open his skull. He leaked spinal fluid out of his brain.<\/span><\/p>\n

He won the Oscar for best actor, back when an Oscar really meant something. There were no reports of a union worker mutiny for an unsafe set.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Sylvester Stallone got slammed so hard by wrestling legend Stone Cold Steve Austin in \u201cThe Expendables\u201d \u2014\u00a0an awesome movie which he directed himself \u2014 that he broke his neck and dislocated both of his shoulders. He needed seven surgeries and ended up having a metal plate inserted into his neck.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jackie Chan gets injured in almost every movie he does: cracked skull from a jump off a tree, legs crushed between two cars, and even one time where he almost lost an eye to a roundhouse kick.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We can imagine that an IATSE production assistant advised Jackie Chan to take a few plays off, but I assure you that didn\u2019t happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Sonnier told Deadline, sometimes the people making action movies are just \u201ctoo busy being bad asses, blowing sh*t up, flying helicopters, and killing movie terrorists to concern ourselves\u201d with attention-seeking union assholes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, no, unions don\u2019t make film sets any safer. If anything, injuries on union-run sets are so common at this point that it\u2019s almost malpractice to involve them.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n