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

Prescription Discounts

  • 7 May 2025
  • Author: Mary Flynn
  • Number of views: 6

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May Newsletter

  • 2 May 2025
  • Author: Mary Flynn
  • Number of views: 34

May Newsletter

  • 2 May 2025
  • Author: Mary Flynn
  • Number of views: 35

CALL: Reverse Gutting of Core Worker Safety Agency, NIOSH

  • 2 May 2025
  • Author: Mary Flynn
  • Number of views: 20
Due to Elon Musk and his unaccountable DOGE, we are facing one of the largest mass firings of federal workers in history, including highly technical federal workers who keep us safe on the job.

More than a thousand workers in six states and Washington, D.C., have lost their jobs at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the federal job safety research agency. By gutting this key organization, America’s workers will lose critical safety protections and more workers will get hurt. Every single NIOSH research center is being closed and the few staff remaining no longer have the resources to do their jobs.

Please call your member of Congress and demand they stand up for this critical health and safety agency and its workers against DOGE and the Trump administration.

Our message is simple: Stop the cuts to NIOSH and reinstate their workers. But here are some other details that may help during your call:

Congress created NIOSH (pronounced nigh-osh) on a broad bipartisan basis.

NIOSH is the only federal government agency that conducts research on worker safety and health, and gathers and analyzes the information to keep workers safe.

NIOSH’s research and recommendations are relied on by workers and employers throughout the world.

NIOSH conducted the key research for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Mine Safety and Health Administration regulations on asbestos, cotton dust, lead, bloodborne pathogens, silica and black lung, which have saved hundreds of thousands of workers’ lives.

NIOSH also researches worker exposures to heat and wildfire smoke, workplace violence, back injuries and other chronic diseases, and state-of-the-art technologies that keep workers safe in mines.  

NIOSH is responsible for approving all respirators, and combats fraud from imported counterfeit products, that keep America’s workers safe and protect U.S. manufacturing.

NIOSH also oversees the World Trade Center Health Program to provide 9/11 responders and survivors medical monitoring and treatment, and a program to compensate energy workers exposed to deadly hazards from manufacturing, testing, and cleaning up nuclear weapons.

Right now each year, more than 5,000 workers die from job injuries and 135,000 workers die from chronic occupational diseases. Millions more workers are injured.

Ten percent of the recently announced Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) staff cuts come from NIOSH, even though that makes up a tiny part of the overall HHS budget.

NIOSH centers being closed are in Pittsburgh; Morgantown, W.Va.; Cincinnati; Spokane, Wash.; Denver; Atlanta; and Washington, D.C.

Link for more information: https://act.aflcio.org/call_campaigns/call-reverse-gutting-of-core-worker-safety-agency-niosh/

May Day: Honoring the Legacy of Labor with OPEIU Local 174

  • 1 May 2025
  • Author: Mary Flynn
  • Number of views: 22

On May 1st, we join workers around the world in recognizing May Day, also known as International Workers' Day, a day deeply rooted in the history and ongoing struggles of the labor movement.

May Day commemorates the 1886 Haymarket Affair in Chicago, where workers rallied for the eight-hour workday and paid a heavy price for demanding fair treatment. Their courage sparked a global movement that continues to shape labor rights today.

For OPEIU Local 174, May Day is more than a historical moment, it's a reflection of our ongoing work to support, protect, and empower administrative professionals across the entertainment and music industry. Our members keep the wheels turning behind the scenes—managing operations, supporting creative teams, and ensuring the industry runs smoothly. Your voices matter, and your labor deserves recognition and respect.

This day reminds us why we organize, why we negotiate, and why we stand together, and it’s a time to honor those who came before us and to recommit ourselves to building a fairer, safer, and more just workplace for everyone.

May Day is union history, and union future.

In solidarity,
OPEIU Local 174

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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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Local 174 Meetings

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

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Local 174 Office

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


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