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UPDATE: Editors Guild Reaches Deal With CW’s ‘The Hunt’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday May 22, 2013 @ 9:33pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, IATSE, Motion Picture Editors Guild, the CW, The Hunt

UPDATE, 9:34 PM: The Motion Pictures Editors Guild said tonight that it has reached an agreement with the producers of The Hunt. “The crew will report to work as scheduled tomorrow, and they’ll be working under a union contract,” the guild said on its Facebook page. “Many thanks to all those sisters and brothers who volunteered to walk the picket line. Thankfully, this time it won’t be necessary.” Sources say that things got pretty heated before a deal was reached between the union and the show’s producers. Company execs were loudly promising that Renegade 83 could go bust if The Hunt crew unionized. They backed down from that claim when it looked like their show would be shut down by picketing tentatively scheduled for Wednesday.

PREVIOUSLY: The upcoming CW series The Hunt doesn’t premiere until July 31st, but its producers are already in trouble with the Hollywood unions. The Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, sent an email to its members and sister IATSE locals today calling for a Thursday picket against Renegade 83 Productions’ Sherman Oaks offices doing post-production. The union claims that production subsidiary Triple Ridge Entertainment “has improperly interfered with its employees’ free exercise of their right to organize”. MPEG took to its Facebook page to put out a call for picketers. The Hunt is a wilderness competition in which 12 teams compete in a physical game for a $25,000 prize. It is executive produced by David Garfinkle, Jay Renfroe and Greg Goldman.

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IATSE And Broadway League Agree On New Three-Year Deal

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 2, 2013 @ 4:33pm PDTTags: Broadway League, Disney Theatrical Productions, IATSE

IATSE just sent out a release confirming a tentative agreement with Broadway producers.

After a lengthy process spread over five months, culminating in a fifteen-hour marathon session that ended in the early morning on May 2, 2013, the IATSE International and The Broadway League/Disney Theatrical Productions have reached a tentative agreement for a new three (3) year contract.

In addition to wage increases, a primary goal for President Matthew Loeb and the Union negotiators was to address challenging travel conditions faced by workers on these tours. Thus, the agreement includes premium pay for load-outs on multiple show days and for travel after a short-rest period, first time additional pay for make-up artists and hairstylists traveling on a seventh day, as well as first-time overage participation (i.e. bonus) for workers on successful tiered tours. The Agreement includes significant employer contributions to the health and pension plans for workers on tiered tours and wage increases for workers in all categories. It also includes employer contributions to the IATSE Training Trust.

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IATSE Charters New Film Locals In Canada

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday April 5, 2013 @ 8:00pm PDTTags: IATSE

For many years Locals 849 and 667 served as the bargaining agent for motion picture technicians and camerapersons in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. As of April 2nd, members of Locals 849 and 667 who … Read More »

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VFX Community Calls For Trade Org, Contract Standards And/Or Union At Lively Town Hall

By JEN YAMATO | Friday March 15, 2013 @ 4:00pm PDTTags: IATSE, Rhythm & Hues, VFX

VFX 2013Unionization and the creation of a trade association topped the priorities at a visual effects biz town hall meeting Thursday in Los Angeles where hundreds of VFX professionals gathered to discuss the state of their troubled industry. Despite calls for solidarity within the global community and a general sense of accord, a tense volley of boos erupted halfway through the panel when Visual Effects Society rep Mike Chambers took the mic and mentioned the organization’s call for larger California subsidies made in an open letter last month. In the letter the VES had announced plans to hold a VFX Congress, which has yet to materialize. “What are you going to do?” shouted one audience member to Chambers, who had no answer for his group.

Related: VFX Oscar Protesters Grow To 400 As Pros Plead Their Case

The exchange highlighted the most crippling challenge currently facing VFX workers: With no organized body other than the strictly honorary VES, artists have no leverage as the current system continues to squeeze their employers for slim profit margins. Among the industry wide issues identified by keynote speaker Scott Squires: A flawed studio-VFX house business model, too much competition, and job-migrating subsidies. Panelists and audience members also decried the strains on health and home life endured by individual VFX artists at the bottom of the VFX food chain. Unpaid overtime, long work weeks and a lack of healthcare benefits are common for visual artists, who comprise one of the last remaining sectors in Hollywood that is not yet unionized.
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Striking Editors, ‘Swamp People’ Producers Settle Dispute

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday February 22, 2013 @ 8:58pm PSTTags: History Channel, IATSE, Motion Picture Editors Guild, Swamp People

Striking editors on the History Channel‘s Swamp People have reached an agreement, according to Motion Picture Editors Guild statements posted on Facebook and Twitter. “We have successfully resolved the Swamp People strike. After a work stoppage of … Read More »

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Editors Call Strike On History Channel’s ‘Swamp People’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday February 19, 2013 @ 12:54pm PSTTags: History, IATSE, Original Media, Swamp People

Post-production editors on History’s Swamp People walked off the job today in protest over producers trying to stymie union organizing. #STRIKE! Until further notice, Editors Guild and potential members are instructed not to service the … Read More »

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IATSE & Pac 12 To Talk; Strike Ends

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday December 18, 2012 @ 5:43pm PSTTags: IATSE, PAC 12 Network

The union and the sports network agreed today to meet and discuss all issues between IATSE and PAC-12, Deadline has learned. This means “an immediate cessation of all strike activities, picket lines, etc,” said IATSE … Read More »

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IATSE Plans Another Round Of Pickets Against Pac-12 Network

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday December 17, 2012 @ 9:20pm PSTTags: IATSE

The dispute between the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and the Pac-12 Network shows no sign of slowing down. IATSE says it plans to set up picket lines again during basketball games Tuesday at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion … Read More »

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IATSE Plans More Pac-12 Network Strike Action

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday December 14, 2012 @ 7:30am PSTTags: IATSE, PAC 12 Network

As it did last weekend, IATSE will picket against the Pac-12 Network beginning tomorrow. The union plans strike lines during basketball games at USC’s Galen Center and UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion. Picketing is also scheduled at the … Read More »

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UPDATE: PAC 12 Net Responds To IATSE Strike Action At Colleges

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Saturday December 8, 2012 @ 5:12pm PSTTags: IATSE, PAC 12 Network, Strike

UPDATE: The PAC 12 sports network has responded to a strike action and picketing by IATSE members outside USC and other conference member schools. The network said it respects the right for workers to decide on union representation and pledged to continue maintain “an exciting and creative work environment”. IATSE said earlier today it had set up pickets at USC in Los Angeles and several other schools on the West Coast and in Arizona because PAC 12 Network is “an unfair employer” that uses non-union workers in areas covered by IATSE. PAC 12 Network has contracts with Time Warner Cable, Comcast, DISH Network, Bright House Networks, among others, to show non-pro sports out of the Western U.S. Read More »

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ITASE’s NY Scenic Artists Ratify Contract

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday October 17, 2012 @ 2:02pm PDTTags: IATSE

New York, Oct. 17 – United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts and the major Studios announced today the ratification of a new three year

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IATSE & ‘Fashion Star’ Reach Deal; Crew Back To Work Today

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday October 17, 2012 @ 7:36am PDTTags: Fashion Star, IATSE, NBC

The union and producers Magical Elves reached an agreement over health and pension benefits last night, Deadline has learned. The crew of Fashion Star, on strike since Saturday, will return to work today. There will be no more picketing at Hollywood Center Studios and the producers’ offices. Also, today’s 1:30 PM taping in front of an audience of the NBC reality show will now go ahead as scheduled. The agreement comes after IATSE representatives met with Magical Elves executives Tuesday afternoon to discuss an offer the union put on the table Monday. The union plans to meet with the approximately 70 crew members on the show later this afternoon to brief them on the details of the deal. Read More »

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UPDATE: ‘Fashion Star’ Producers Call Meeting With IATSE After Union Puts Offer On The Table

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday October 16, 2012 @ 4:48pm PDTTags: Fashion Star, IATSE, Magical Elves, NBC

2ND UPDATE, 4:48 PM: IATSE has been called to a meeting with Fashion Star producers Magical Elves this afternoon, Deadline has learned. The face-to-face comes after the union put an offer before the producers of the NBC reality show to settle a labor dispute that started Saturday. “Talks are ongoing. The ball is in their court,” an IATSE spokesperson told Deadline earlier Tuesday. “We are still on strike.” Fashion Star is scheduled to resume taping tomorrow at 1:30 PM at Hollywood Center Studios. The union began discussions with Magical Elves yesterday. Four days after the crew walked off the job over health and pension benefits, picketing today was mainly centered on the De Longpre Avenue offices of the show in Hollywood. As of Tuesday afternoon, IATSE say they intend to be picketing tomorrow at Hollywood Center and the Magical Elves offices on Sunset. Read More »

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Production On ‘Fashion Star’ Shut Down As Crew Strikes Seeking Union Representation

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday October 13, 2012 @ 10:46am PDTTags: Fashion Star, IATSE
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NBC’s reality series Fashion Star is scheduled to tape today at Hollywood Center Studios. But I’ve learned the shoot has been suspended after the crew of the show went on strike this morning seeking union representation. The action was organized … Read More »

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IATSE, AMPTP Ratify New Standards Agreement

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday September 5, 2012 @ 6:17pm PDTTags: AMPTP, IATSE

Los Angeles, Sept. 5 – The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts (IATSE) and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) announced today the ratification of a new Area Standards Agreement. The agreement covers 8,000 IATSE members working in feature film and television production in most areas of the United States outside of the Los Angeles and New York regions. The IATSE and AMPTP reached a tentative agreement on a new contract on August 24th, and the agreement was subsequently ratified by the IATSE General Executive Board.

The new contract, which will run through July 31, 2015, includes 2 percent annual wage increases and an increase in health plan contributions of $5 per day in each year of the three-year agreement.

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Editors Win Union Benefits On Syfy Show ‘Hot Set’ After Walkout Halts Production

By NIKKI FINKE AND DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday August 24, 2012 @ 9:55pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Big Deals TV, IATSE, Syfy

EXCLUSIVE: Editors Guild National Organizer Rob Callahan told Deadline tonight that editors for Mission Control Media-produced Hot Set who walked off the job because they wanted to an Editors Guild/IATSE Local 700 … Read More »

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Toronto Film Festival Picketed By IATSE

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday August 24, 2012 @ 7:29pm PDTTags: IATSE, Toronto Film Festival

A group of IATSE specialized projectionists known as film revisors have begun informational picketing outside the Toronto International Film Festival‘s Bell Lightbox headquarters over the outsourcing of digital cinema file revisions for the September 6-16 event. Pickets are also set up at Deluxe Entertainment Services Group in Toronto, which has been contracted to handle revisions of digital movie files for the festival. If the labor action continues — it’s not a strike — festival attendees may have to cross picket lines to attend screenings or red-carpet galas. With most festivals shifting from film to digital prints, work formerly performed on film — inspecting, repairing and splicing segments into complete, seamless programs — now involves editing computer files. “This is not work that can be performed in-house,” festival VP of communications and content management Jennifer Bell told the Toronto Globe & Mail via e-mail. IATSE Local 58, which represents the seven film revisors affected by the outsourcing, responded that TIFF is contractually obligated to use its workers. Read More »

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California Senate Approves Tax Credit Extension For Film/TV Industry

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday August 21, 2012 @ 1:43pm PDTTags: California Film & Television Tax Credit Program, IATSE, SAG AFTRA, tax credits

An extension of California’s $100 million annual film and television tax credit program leaped through another legislative hurdle today. With a 32-3 vote in Sacramento, the state Senate approved extending the program two more years. The measure, … Read More »

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‘Daily Show’ Technical Employees Ratify IATSE Contract

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday August 1, 2012 @ 9:01am PDTTags: IATSE

NEW YORK, Aug. 1 — IATSE is pleased to announce that technical employees of “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart have unanimously ratified their first collective bargaining agreement.

The contract is the culmination of negotiations between IATSE and the producers of the hit made-for-basic-cable series following voluntary recognition of the union by the employer.

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