The two sides returned to the bargaining table nearly two weeks ago, after IATSE members overwhelmingly voted to authorize a potential strike.
According to the letter, union priorities that were satisfied in the agreement included living wages, better wages and working conditions on streaming projects, 3% annual increases of scale wages that are retroactive, “employer funded benefits” during the course of the contract, higher meal penalties, daily 10-hour turnarounds for all and 54- and 32-hour weekend rest periods. Other features include incorporating Martin Luther King Jr.
More details about the agreement will be available to union members “over the next few days,” the letter adds. If a strike had been called, it would have affected projects produced under the union’s and the AMPTP’s Basic Agreement, Area Standards Agreement and Videotape Agreement, which have all expired, and prompted around 60,000 workers to withhold their
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
IATSE Making “Progress” At Bargaining Table To Avert A Strike, But Deal Is “Not There Yet”IATSE and the AMPTP are making progress at the bargaining table, but the two sides still have a ways to go to avert a threatened strike on Monday. “We did make progress,” a union source said. “Yest…
Read more »
IATSE Members Can Do “Sympathy Strikes” And Honor Picket Lines Even If Not On StrikeWith contract negotiations coming down to the wire, IATSE says that members not directly involved in a threatened work stoppage can still engage in “sympathy strikes.” Members can refus…
Read more »
IATSE Talks With Studios Going Down to the Wire As Members Prepare for StrikeA studio source said “a deal seems to be in sight,' while the union is maintaining silence on this point.
Read more »
Details Of New IATSE Contract That Averted Strike: Union Got Nearly Everything It Was Asking ForIATSE appears to have gotten just about everything it was asking for in a deal with the AMPTP that averted a nationwide strike, including more rest between workdays and improved wages and working c…
Read more »
Hollywood Strike Averted As IATSE & AMPTP Reach Deal On New Film & TV ContractEXCLUSIVE: With Hollywood on edge and picket signs at the ready, IATSE and the AMPTP have reached an agreement on a new film and TV contract, averting a threatened nationwide strike. The new three-…
Read more »
IATSE and AMPTP Have Reached a Deal to Avert a StrikeNegotiators from the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees have reached a deal for a new three-year contract, averting a strike that would have shut down film and TV production acros…
Read more »