MPEG 2019 BOARD ELECTION RESULTS
Congratulations to the newly elected or re-elected members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild’s 2019 Board of Directors. The new members will take office on January 1, 2019. […]
IATSE
Vice Media Post Employees
Ratify Guild Contract
Post-production employees of Vice Media, Inc. have overwhelmingly ratified a Motion Picture Editors Guild union contract. The agreement addresses employee’s concerns over pay and job security, and also breaks new ground on the topic of gender and use of pronouns. […]
Editors Guild Rejects IA Contract
in Landslide Vote Marked by Record Turnout
Motion Picture Editors Guild members voted overwhelmingly to reject the 2018 IATSE Basic Agreement in a massive landslide — 89% voting against ratification, representing more than 5,100 members. […]
As IATSE Contract Vote Deadline Nears,
All Eyes on Turnout
Local 700 is engaging in Get Out the Vote outreach to members. Ballots are due in the mail by October 9. The results will be announced October 10. […]
Local 700’s Repola to Discuss ‘Problem Issues’ with New Contract in Podcast
The Editors Guild will broadcast a series of daily podcasts about “the big problem issues” of the new union contract as members prepare to vote in a ratification election. […]
Op/Edit: To Honor Labor Day, A Union Deal that Dishonors Labor?
Opinion: Has our union has made a deal that doesn’t respect the labor of members? […]
30 Years on Sunset
Over the summer and fall of 1988, the Motion Picture Editors Guild in Hollywood, then IATSE Local 776, made two very auspicious hires to its staff. On July 25, Adriana Iglesias (now Iglesias-Dietl) became assistant bookkeeper and, on October 17, Lisa Berniker (now Dosch) was named administrative assistant. […]
The Never-Ending Effort to Forge Solidarity
This issue of CineMontage, for all its many virtues, isn’t the most important piece of mail you’ll receive this month. Local 700 members, as well as members of our 12 sister IATSE locals who share the Basic Agreement, will soon receive ballots in their mailboxes. […]
Last Fair Deal Gone Down?
Our nation and our union are currently roiling in the pro-or-con debate of upcoming elections. For the country, it’s the biennial mid-term elections of our congressional representatives and senators as well as state officials in early November, which looks to be more divisive than ever. […]
Hollywood Unions Slam
Court’s ‘Shameful’ Janus Ruling
As organized labor was left fuming after the Supreme Court’s late June decision in ‘Janus v. AFSCME’ that public service employees don’t have to pay union “agency fees,” Hollywood guilds planted a flag of defiance, writes Erik Pedersen in ‘Deadline Hollywood.’ […]