IATSE is striking the second season of the live-action YouTube series CoComelon : The Melon Patch as the show’s crew members endeavor to persuade the production to sign a union contract. The crew union announced the picket of the toddler-skewing educational series on Wednesday after an unsuccessful attempt to unionize the production. ”Rather than provide fair wages and benefits to the crew the producer is trying to hire scabs for the production in Sun Valley, Calif,” IATSE alleged on Instagram . According to the union, 22 crew members who previously worked on the first season returned for the second, where they encountered a decline in working conditions, with a greater workload expected of each crew member. The strike began on Wednesday, the seventh day of a 16-day shoot, and the union is claiming that the production began attempting to hire replacement workers. One member of Local 80 who was hired subsequently joined the picket line, which is continuing on Thursday.…