Welcome to OPEIU Local 174

The Office and Professional Employees International Union was chartered in 1945 by the American Federation of Labor. At the time of its founding, the membership of the Union numbered 22,000.  The Union now counts 145,000 members and is one of the larger unions in the AFL-CIO. As it moves into its 57th year of chartered existence, the OPEIU has local unions functioning throughout the fifty states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia

The Union represents and bargains for both private and public sector professional and semiprofessional workers laboring in most of the major industries in the United States. The OPEIU is also affiliated with a number of state and national professional organizations.

OPEIU members work in industries varied as motion picture industry, banking, insurance, universities, shipping, hospitals and nursing homes, utilities, transportation, manufacturing, paper companies, hotels and many more. They are in positions as varied as computer programmers and operators, engineers, secretaries, nurses, accountants, attorneys, transit supervisors, security guards, bank tellers, administrative aides, quality control personnel, doctors, models, police and others.

Who Local 174 Represents:

OPEIU Local 174 is the Motion Picture Industry Union representing over 1700 workers employed in administrative support positions employed at Universal Studios, Uni Music Group, Universal Television, Fox Studios, Warner Bros Studios, Warner Bros. Studio Facilities, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Motion Picture Health and Pension Plan, Cinematographers Guild Administration, Secretly Music Group, IATSE Training Trust Fund and Walt Disney Enterprises

OPEIU Local 174 members have gained major through the collective bargaining process in:

Wage Increases, Medical Benefits, Pension Benefits, Overtime Pay, Vacation Leave, Sick Leave, Representation, Grievance and Arbitration, Temporary Job Placement and Job Referral Service.

Latest News

Protect America's Workforce Act

Tell Congress: Sign the Discharge Petition

  • 8 August 2025
  • Author: Mary Flynn
  • Number of views: 1

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announcement it was terminating the union contracts of hundreds of thousands of VA workers, including members of AFL-CIO affiliated unions: 

Every American who cares about the fundamental freedoms of working people should be outraged by this attack on workers’ ability to speak out and stand up at the VA. This union-busting decision is an ambush on the people who care for our country’s veterans and their right to stand together in a union, and will without a doubt harm the lifesaving services veterans desperately need. It’s clear this is explicit retaliation against VA workers whose unions are standing up to the administration’s illegal actions in court and in the streets.

The Trump administration may think they can rip up our contracts and silence anyone who pushes back against their unlawful and anti-worker actions, but we aren’t going anywhere. The labor movement will continue to fight this all-out assault on workers with everything we have—and we’re calling on Americans across this country to join us.

Call your Senators: 844-994-4554 

SAVE OUR PAYMENT CENTERS SOCAL GAS

Leave a Public Comment!

  • 7 August 2025
  • Author: Mary Flynn
  • Number of views: 8
SoCal Gas plans to shutter all 43 payment centers, putting over 100 union jobs at risk. These offices are critical for thousands who rely on in-person services, especially in underserved communities.

The union requested Public Participation Hearings, with SoCal Gas responding that "Holding PPHs in every affected community is unduly burdensome..." 

Save our payment centers! Leave a public comment demanding SoCalGas hold public hearings here!

Plan Now! Attend a Union Event for Labor Day

  • 5 August 2025
  • Author: Mary Flynn
  • Number of views: 13

Labor Day is fast approaching! We are fired up and ready to celebrate and honor the working people who built this country by marching, rallying and attending union events across the nation.

Will you join us for an event? 

Despite the troubling times we're facing, working people still carry with them a vision of a better, fairer future. In the streets, on the shop floor, In union halls and in the halls of Congress, workers are rising up and fighting for the economy and country we all deserve.

August 2025 Newsletter

  • 1 August 2025
  • Author: Mary Flynn
  • Number of views: 42

Read the OPEIU CONNECT Summer Issue Online!

Local 174 made the issue!

  • 29 July 2025
  • Author: Mary Flynn
  • Number of views: 42
Your union magazine, OPEIU CONNECT, is available now to read in both English and Spanish at opeiu.org


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OPEIU Local 174 Current Leadership  

Lupe Valles, President/Business Manager

Marcia Alvarez, Vice President/Motion Picture Pension & Health Plan 

Richard Rosen, Secretary Treasurer/ ex. Warner Bros. Operations and Business Representative 

Michael Kanyer, Recording Secretary- Universal Studios 

Robert Kiel, ex. Trustee Sony Pictures

Jack McCrone, ex. MPIPHP

Mary Fujita, ex. Fox Studio Lot

Maria Smith, ex. Universal Television Network

Local 174 is restructuring so that we can overcome the challenges in the rapid development and adoption of technology we are faced with in our industry. We must be able to adapt to these changes so it is important that Local 174 move towards the modern way of communications. In the near future, we will be moving towards the elimination of mailings and posting all membership meeting notices on the website. All activity happening in  your union will also be posted on the website so please be sure you visit www.opeiu174.org. for updates. We are  are also moving towards creating google platforms so you are aware of what is happening at the bargaining table .   

We are looking forward to partnering with you on changing the face of this Local by Organizing New Members and Mobilizing our Membership. Your involvement is crucial, so we are asking all members to be actively involved in Membership Meetings, Shop Steward Trainings, and Contract Bargaining Committees.  If you have not updated you personal email and phone number, please do so by filling out the contact information on this website. 


 

 

 


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s “compromise” to extend enhanced unemployment insurance by just one week is an insult to working people struggling to make ends meet. Call your senators today at (866) 832-1560 and tell them to protect working people and pass the HEROES Act.

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Third Wednesday on the months of January, April, July,  and October. 


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Contact Us
Local 174 Office

3100 W. Burbank Blvd., Suite 203
Burbank, CA 91505
Telephone 818-842-5572 


Office Hours: 9:00AM - 5:00PM