In Now-Stalled Contract Talks With IATSE, AMPTP Proposed More Than Doubling Hours Needed To Qualify For Pension Credits
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deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Before its contract negotiations with IATSE broke off, the AMPTP proposed making it much more difficult for workers to qualify for pensions by raising the qualification cutoff from the current 400 hours per year to 950.
That would preclude hundreds, if not thousands, of IATSE members from earning pension credits each year, and is just one of the many issues on which the union says the two sides “remain far apart.”Union sources say that management will have to scale back this proposal significantly if a deal is to be made and a strike averted.The union, which is now in the process of seeking strike authorization from its members, had come to the bargaining table demanding “sustainable benefits,” but deems as unacceptable a more
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