Los Angeles, March 26 – The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts (IATSE) and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have not completed their negotiation for a new Hollywood Basic Agreement. The parties need additional time to review data before resuming talks at a later time. In the meantime, the parties will continue to maintain a formal news blackout. We will have no further comment at this time.


Being a current IATSE member – I’m concerned. I don’t think both parties are on Spring Break with their kids….
This contract could very well be historical with health care issues and possible interchangeability within a craft or crafts much like the New Media contract from 2009.
I’m also concerned I’m the only union member comment on this post???
If you had come to the multi local meeting last month you would know that our negotiators were much too busy to go on spring break. The producers walked into the first negotiation meeting with a 35 page proposal written in legalese that asked fit all kinds of major concessions like letting PAs jump in and do our work (can you see a PA pulling cable for the electricians or putting makeup on actors?) Emboldened by the anti labor forces at work in this country they are trying to gut our unions. This was the first time I’ve seen an IATSE President show at a west coast meeting much less talk about going out on strike! I’ve got 37 years in the union, and we’ve never even come close before.