IATSE and the AMPTP have ended their fifth day of do-or-die contract talks and will resume bargaining for a new film and TV pact on Monday.
But if a deal is to be reached, and a strike averted, it will have to be made soon. On Friday, Matt Loeb, the union’s president, said that either way, “It’s a matter of days, not weeks.” The two sides have been bargaining, on and off, since mid-May.The union’s members are clearly ready to go on strike, if that’s what it takes to get a fair deal.
Last weekend, members of 36 locals across the country, including 13 in Los Angeles, voted resoundingly — 98.68% out of more than 53,000 votes cast — in favor of granting Loeb the authority to call the union’s first-ever nationwide strike if a deal can’t be
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