The IATSE Basic Agreement was ratified on Monday by just a few hundred votes in two guilds, and with a majority of members of the 13 West Coast locals actually voting no. But the Area Standards Agreement […]
Less than a week after IATSE struck a strike-averting tentative agreement with the Hollywood studios, streamers and networks for a new film and TV contract, members of the union will learn the actual details […]
Matthew Loeb, president of the IATSE, said early Wednesday that unless an agreement is reached, 60,000 union members will begin a nationwide strike against the major studios on October 18 at 12:01 a.m. […]
Representative Adam Schiff (D-California) said thousands “voted to authorize a strike — the next chapter in their ongoing efforts to secure livable wages and acceptable working conditions.” […]
Ninety-eight percent of members voted yes; the turnout was 90%. […]
“Adequate sleep, reasonable turnaround times, meal breaks, sustainable health and retirement benefits and living wages are the basic building blocks of a healthy industry and benefit producers as well as crew,” ACE, the 61 year-old honorary society for film editors, wrote in a statement. […]
Fourteen of Hollywood’s top cinematographers have signed a letter urging the member companies of the AMPTP to finally address “the hazards of unsafe working hours” that have been common in the […]
Matt Loeb, running unopposed, was re-elected Thursday to a new four-year term as president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees during the union’s 69th Quadrennial Convention. […]
“Securing health and pension benefits is also a high priority,” writes David Robb in Deadline Hollywood. “The IATSE locals ‘are unified in their support for sustainable benefits,’ their leaders said. […]
When the Metropolitan Opera’s stagehands finally returned to work last week after an agonizingly long furlough that was followed by a seven-month lockout as they negotiated a new contract with pay cuts […]
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