If you have any questions not listed below, please contact the Cornell University ILR School Research team directly through the contact form here: https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/worker-institute/iatse-census/contact-us
The 2023 IATSE Member Census is a critical initiative to gain accurate, anonymized, aggregated, and up to date statistics regarding our membership across the United States and Canada.
The insights gained from the Member Census will be used to empower us to better advocate for our members’ rights and interests, and ensure future actions reflect the union’s membership.
The Member Census opens July 10, 2023
For purposes of counting and understanding the membership, the Member Census will ask questions that will include age, gender, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, disability, education, income, insurance, etc.
To also understand the membership by areas, there will be questions such as local number, zipcode/postal code, work sector, work classification, years with the union, etc.
The 2023 Member Census will be sent to all current IATSE members across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.
People who are on Honorable Withdrawal, people who have not yet been sworn in (permit workers, overhires), and anyone who has been expelled are not permitted to take the Member Census at this time.
The research team at The Worker Institute at Cornell University’s School of Industrial Labor Relations (ILR) has been selected to conduct the 2023 Member Census. The Cornell Worker Institute has a long history of training labor leaders and conducting research for unions.
The Member Census is mandated by delegate convention action at the 2021 IATSE Quadrennial Convention.
Your participation will give us a starting point enabling a much greater understanding to be able to strategize for secure work and better standards. Without your participation, your voice and needs will not be reflected in the Member Census.
Contact the Cornell University ILR School Research Director for Worker Rights and Equity Anne Marie Brady via the contact form here: https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/worker-institute/iatse-census/contact-us
Yes. Your participation in the Member Census is strictly confidential. The Worker Institute at Cornell University’s School of Industrial Labor Relations (ILR) will store Member Census responses on their secure servers. Your information is encrypted and analyzed by Cornell University’s Worker Institute, a neutral third-party team.
Cornell University’s Worker Institute will have your information only for the purposes of sending your personalized confidential link and verification to take the Member Census and tracking your participation in the Member Census.
Information is stored on Cornell University’s secure servers and will not be made available to anyone outside of the research team at Cornell University. Once Cornell University’s Worker Institute has ended the data collection period, your name will never be linked to your Census responses, and your contact information used for verification will be erased from their secure servers.
Cornell University’s Survey Research is managing the data.
The IATSE is partnering with Cornell University’s Worker Institute to provide locals with tools and resources to assist in spreading information about the Member Census and to obtain the largest participation effort from members possible in order to present the most accurate results.
The accuracy of the 2023 Member Census is dependent upon the membership’s responsiveness to and participation in the Member Census. Your support in this effort is crucial to ensure that the results are representative, and you are counted.
The information gathered from the Member Census will provide locals and the international the most current and accurate membership data that can help inform planning, decision-making, bargaining, organizing, political and legislative actions, and other union initiatives.
During the first week of July, members will receive an email notice from IATSE with a notice that the Member Census email is coming from the Cornell University’s Worker Institute in the next few days.
On July 10th, each member will receive an email from Cornell’s Director of Worker Rights and Equity, Anne Marie Brady from email address: iatse_census@cornell.edu containing a unique personalized URL link to take the Census. Use this link to take the 2023 Member Census. Members will be asked to verify themselves when they click on the link.
You may receive follow-up emails from Cornell University’s Worker Institute until you have completed your Census or until the data collection effort has ended.
For members who are unable to recieve an email from the Cornell University’s Worker Institute, there will be a general Member Census link that will launch on July 10th and be available on the Cornell University IATSE Member Census website and the IATSE Member Census toolkit. Members can use this link to take the 2023 Member Census. Members must verify themselves in order to take the Census.
The 2023 Member Census is only available to current and active IATSE members.
If the date is July 10th or later, please visit the Cornell Member Census website and visit the page with the general link to take the 2023 Member Census. You will be asked to verify yourself on the link.
If you are unable to access the Census through the link in your email or the general link, please contact Cornell ILR Research Director for Worker Rights and Equity Anne Marie Brady for help.
We anticipate it will take between 10-15 minutes to complete the Census.
The Census is available in English, French, and Spanish
No. Cornell University’s verification process will only allow you to submit the Member Census one time.
-Check in frequently to this toolkit to access the latest information and sample promotional content including digital stickers and messaging.
– Visit ‘Your Guide to the 2023 IATSE Member Census, Powered by the Worker Institute at Cornell’, our partner page on Cornell University’s Worker Institute website here: https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/worker-institute/iatse-census
-Attend your 2023 District meeting to hear a presentation on the IATSE Member Census created by the IATSE Education and Training Department in partnership with Cornell University’s Worker Institute and the IATSE DEI Committee.
-Become an IATSE Census ambassador! Share and promote participation in answering the Member Census. Help your local set up a Census station at your membership meeting or at a work site. Host a town hall for your region covering the IATSE Member Census in partnership with Cornell University’s Worker Institute (by request only).
Yes, check back on this website for announcements on upcoming Member Census swag and/or contests.
The IATSE will determine what overall results may be shared with the public and through which avenues.
This is the first time IATSE is conducting a Census of its members.
There are no follow-up studies or periodic updates to the 2023 Member Census planned at this time.
The union may decide in the future to conduct a Member Census periodically.
For more information on our collaborators at the Worker Institute at Cornell ILR, click here.
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