Teamsters Are Given a ‘Last, Best and Final’ Offer as Contract Nears Expiration
variety.comGene Maddaus Senior Media Writer With four days to go before their contract expires, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has given a “last, best and final” offer to the union representing 6,500 drivers, location managers and animal wranglers.
The Teamsters and other Hollywood Basic Crafts unions have been in talks for six weeks. The unions are seeking sizable wage increases, limits on subcontracting, and protection from driverless trucks.
Teamsters Local 399 told members in an update at 1:30 a.m. Saturday that the AMPTP’s final offer “did not meet the negotiating committee’s approval.” The union said it had given a counter-offer late in the day, and is awaiting a response. “We think our response to the producer’s package is reasonable and would be a deal that gets this over the finish line,” Lindsay Dougherty, the secretary-treasurer of Teamsters 399, said in a statement.
A “last, best and final” offer is meant to signal to the union that management has gone as far as it can go and it’s time to wrap things up.
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