Damian Petti

  2025: A Year of Progress and Growth for Local 212 despite many challenges. New Members sworn-in on April 16th 2025 2025 was a year of advancement for Local 212 despite a number of challenges to our employment and well being. The Stage side of the Local saw many victories and advancements to our Collective Agreements. In September we saw the Certification of Vertigo Theatre which was the last of the downtown professional theatres to be represented by the Local. On the Motion Picture side of the Local we managed to hold our own in a global marketplace that has seen a proliferation of new and enhanced tax credits. We also saw an array of global mergers which have made competition for the available work in many North-American jurisdictions much more intense. Signatories to the Local 212 Werklund Centre Agreement  Members of Local 212's Delegation to the 70th Quadrennial Convention  Our DEI and Pride Committee held “It’s Giving trade Union” education with a drag queen featur...

  IATSE 212  2024 A REMARKABLE YEAR IN REVIEW  2024 was the most remarkable year in Local 212's 114-year history. Among the historic achievements, Local 212 opened a new training facility and office building, hosted an International Board Meeting and signed a historic Agreement with Netflix. On top of that we saw a number of new faces come to join the Local 212 staff team. To say it was an eventful year would be an understatement. January Trade Mission to Los Angeles  President Petti with Michael Dunphy -Teamsters 362, Jyoti Gondek -Mayor of Calgary, Luke Azevedo -Calgary Film Commission, Tina Alford -ACTRA Alberta and Lisa Pearl-Whitten -DGC-ADC. The Year began with a slow start in terms of work but a very successful trade mission to Los Angeles  brought the optimism of many leads and follow-ups that would help to bring a busy summer, despite an ongoing global production slowdown. The Last of Us picks up 8 Emmy Awards 2024 got off to a very optimistic start wi...

            IATSE Local 212 Launches its New Office and Training facility! After many years of planning, searching for land and meeting numerous budgetary and design requirements, Local 212 is proud to announce that its new training facility and office building is now open for business! It all began in 2017 when the Local began to explore options to make our building accessible to all, by adding an elevator.  The initial quotes were running well over a million dollars, so we began to explore designing and building our own building and selling the old building. We wanted flexible training spaces that would put our Local onto the IA training circuit. We looked at land with lots of parking near rapid transit and after 3 years found the perfect spot, which also had a Thrift Store called “Thriftopia" as a tenant. Thriftopia is a tenant of the property now owned by Local 212. The pandemic slowed us down but on April 23 rd  2023, we broke ground....