After Pickle fired the camera crew, the union drive failed. Leadership on that movie dismissed those concerns, according to a person familiar with the case, which is what prompted the camera crew to seek to flip the set, turning it more than 51 percent union and requiring the implementation of union rules.

On the Keys to the City set, the camera crew expressed concern about safety issues, including that they were asked to suspend an 80-pound camera over an actress’s head without using safety cables to protect her, and that they were being forced to move too quickly to guard against accidents. 21, the day Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins while rehearsing a gunfight scene, producers on that film also called police on union crew who had returned after walking off the set in frustration, according to a person with knowledge of the production. In the settlement agreement, the NLRB characterized Pickle’s calling of law enforcement on union members as “interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in. Pickle also called police in an attempt to get union members arrested when they picketed on a public sidewalk, according to a source with knowledge of the production. Santa Fe Police Department Issues Warrant to Search Alec Baldwin's Cellphone Pickle ultimately fired the camera crew “because they signed union authorization cards,” violating the National Labor Relations Act, according to a 2019 settlement agreement reached between IATSE and the production company, Tier 2 Films.

The production’s two line producers, one of whom is Gabrielle Pickle, the line producer named on the call sheet for Rust, began interrogating the seven-person camera crew that had been a part of the push. In October of 2018, crewmembers on the set of the low-budget Atlanta production Keys to the City grew concerned about safety and began trying to flip their set from nonunion to union. A line producer on Rust was named in a previous unfair labor practices settlement, parts of which mirror treatment that crew have said they experienced on the New Mexico set of the Alec Baldwin indie Western before that production shut down on Oct.

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