Leaders of the Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, are urging their members to vote “overwhelmingly” to authorize a strike against the film and TV industry.
The guild’s board, meeting on Tuesday, voted unanimously to recommend that members back the strike authorization after negotiations with the AMPTP for a new Basic Agreement broke down.
The guild is one of three IATSE locals with national jurisdiction, and with more than 8,600 members, is its second largest local.Three years ago, the Editors Guild stood alone among IATSE’s 13 West Coast studio locals in its opposition to ratifying the last contract – largely because it didn’t go far enough in addressing the industry’s brutally long workdays or funding the union’s ailing pension plan, which
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