Providing Training Opportunities for the IATSE Workforce

 
 

The IATSE Entertainment and Exhibition Industries Training Trust Fund is the result of a partnership between the IATSE and Signatory Employers. The IATSE Training Trust Fund facilitates training opportunities for IATSE workers to achieve and maintain the skills, ability, and knowledge necessary to meet the ever changing technologies in the entertainment and exhibition industries.

Vision

The IATSE Entertainment and Exhibition Industries Training Trust Fund envisions a workforce with the highest level of training in skills, safety, and craftsmanship, available across the IATSE jurisdiction.

Mission

To promote industry-wide recognized standards for safety, skills, and craftsmanship in the entertainment and exhibition industries by:

  • Providing training that improves existing skills, develops new skills, embraces technological change, and focuses on the safest way to perform the work of the crafts

  • Supporting training opportunities to all employees working under the jurisdiction of the IATSE

  • Developing state-of-the-art training tools, resources, and methods

History

The IATSE Training Trust Fund was created to advance the skills and safety of IATSE workers. The IATSE Craft Advancement Program Committee (ICAP) was formed shortly after the IATSE 66th Quadrennial Convention to establish best practices in safety and skills training. Out of the work and foresight of this committee, the Training Trust Fund started to take shape.

On June 22, 2011, DADCO and I.A.T.S.E. signed the agreement to create the IATSE Entertainment and Exhibition Industries Training Trust Fund, an ERISA and Taft Hartley Labor Management Training Fund. This date marks the birth of the IATSE Training Trust Fund. The TTF is a 501(c)(9) tax-exempt organization.

Program Eligibility

Individuals who are active IATSE members or working under an IATSE agreement may be eligible for TTF programs and be beneficiaries of the TTF. Some courses may have specific class prerequisites which must be met for admission to the course.

The TTF is a joint labor-management fund governed by the Department of Labor and ERISA which means that we have to abide by strict guidelines regarding who is eligible to participate in our programs and what kind of programs we can offer. It also means that we are required to ask individuals and locals to complete certain paperwork to satisfy those ERISA and DOL requirements.