From one “hot labor summer” to the next: Below-the-line workers will sit down with the Hollywood studios Monday to begin talks for new film and TV contracts.
All eyes, metaphorically speaking, are on the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers‘ Sherman Oaks offices, as IATSE and the Hollywood Basic Crafts link arms to discuss pension and health plans — the first step in a lengthy negotiation process that likely will extend well into the summer. “Their fight is our fight.
It’s really plain and simple,” IATSE International President Matthew Loeb told Deadline ahead of negotiations. “We’re on the same benefit plans.
The [IATSE] kids and the Teamster and Basic Craft kids live on the same streets and play together and go to the same schools.
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