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After Board Strike Vote, Guild Leaders Vow to Show ‘What Solidarity Looks Like’
This is a historic moment for the rank-and-file members of the IATSE bargaining unit. […]
Negotiations
Industry
IATSE Reveals Most Thorough Details Yet of Proposed New Deal
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 […]
Industry
IATSE Sets Strike Date for 60,000 Film and TV Workers, Ratcheting Pressure on Studios
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. […]
Industry
Hollywood Workers Authorize a Strike: Showdown Over Streaming Profits
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.” […]
Industry
Top Cinematographers Call on Producers to Address Long Workdays
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 […]
Industry
IATSE Taking Hard Line in Advance of August’s Film, TV Contract Talks
“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. […]
Industry
Met Opera Strikes a Deal with IATSE Stagehands Over Pandemic Pay
The Metropolitan Opera has reached a tentative agreement for a new contract with Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. The union and the company declined to share details […]
Industry
TV Writers Stand in Solidarity with Assistants’ Demands for a ‘Living Wage’
Crystal Hopkins, president of IA Local 871, sent out a statement she made to management’s AMPTP shortly before the talks broke off: For the workers we speak for it is about being treated fairly for what we do. […]
Industry
Streaming Outdraws Broadcast TV, Nielsen Figures Say
The notion that streaming is the new broadcasting just got a big piece of data to back it up. Nielsen has released a new measure of TV usage that shows streaming platforms pulled in a bigger share of viewers’ […]
Guild
IATSE ‘Committed to Fighting’ for ‘More Humane and Equitable Workplace’
Leaders of IATSE’s 13 production locals in Hollywood are showing a united front in their negotiations for a new film and TV contract with management’s Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. In a joint […]
