Editors Guild Reaches Tentative Agreement With Studios On Local-Specific Issues

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After an additional day of bargaining, the Motion Picture Editors Guild reached a preliminary deal with the studios. IATSE Local 700 finished up bargaining on craft-specific issues Friday, becoming the ninth of 13 west coast studio locals to wrap up talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. “We debated proposals and priorities; sometimes we reached a consensus easily and sometimes we disagreed.

We presented our differing views with passion, but always approached the task from a place of mutual respect,” MPEG National Executive Director Cathy Repola wrote in a memo to members on Friday.

It took five days of talks for the Editors Guild to reach an agreement with the AMPTP. The guild had initially scheduled four days of bargaining during the last week of March before returning Friday for one additional day.

The deal also comes as DreamWorks Animation Production Workers unionized under both the Editors Guild and the Animation Guild last week.