MyConnext, the online platform developed by the Hollywood Commission for industry workers to report harassment, discrimination and abuse, is scaling up.

Starting Tuesday, the crew union IATSE is offering the tool to some 85,000 U.S. members who work across television, film and commercials. MyConnext, created to address calls in industry surveys for a tool to record bad behavior in the workplace, provides users with a means to log these experiences with a timestamp for their own personal use, with employers and/or their unions. Workers can ask questions and submit reports anonymously and also use a hold for match feature that only sends a report once someone else has reported the same individual. The tool additionally provides users with ombuds, or workplace specialists who can confidentially discuss concerns with union members and offer them resources and potential courses of action.

Were gratified that the MyConnext tool, resources and live help through the Ombuds office are available to the members of IATSE, Hollywood Commission executive director Malia Arrington says in a statement. With this expansion, we double our reach.

Adds Vanessa Holtgrewe, IATSEs assistant department director of motion picture and television production, MyConnext represents what a union represents, which is strength in numbers, support and resources to provide a safe work environment.

The Hollywood Commission, chaired by Anita Hill, announced the custom-built platform in May with the Writers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America already enrolled. SAG-AFTRA, too, provided access to its Safe Place reporting mechanism on the platform. Netflix, Amazon Studios and the Kennedy/Marshall Company were early employer partners.

MyConnext, which operates separately from the Hollywood Commission, is led by a management committee including ReFrame director Andria Wilson Mirza, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor emerita of psychology and gender and women studies Dr. Louise Fitzgerald and workplace culture strategist Wokie Nwabueze.

IATSE already provides a safety app to members and a hotline that is available 24/7, but MyConnext provides harassment-specific reporting options that have a greater range than what a phone call or a report to our safety app will be, says IATSEs Holtgrewe. Im hoping that if folks were not comfortable utilizing these other two methods of reporting to us, they will have some tools here that are new for them.

Union members can report past instances of alleged misconduct on MyConnext, not just those that are concurrent. And if particular employers are not signed on to the platform, Holtgrewe says, members can report any employer that has a labor contract with the union to the labor group and determine a way forward with union representatives.

Says IATSE international president Matthew Loeb in a statement, This tool gives members concerned about their professional and personal wellbeing another safe way to report and chronicle harassment or other forms of workplace abuse while being shielded from retaliation.

IATSE members can now access MyConnext through their Locals website.

The MyConnext ombuds feature. Courtesy of IATSE