Upcoming negotiations for a new film and TV contract covering members of Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 “will be more difficult than usual, as the companies try to make up for Covid losses on our backs,” Local 399 leader Steve Dayan said in a message to his members.The union’s current contract had been set to expire on July 31, but bargaining has been delayed until September to allow IATSE time to negotiate its own film and TV pact with management’s Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
The IATSE pact also had been set to expire the same day, but those negotiations, which began in May, were put on hold earlier this month to allow time for the companies and the industry’s unions and guilds to renegotiate new return-to-work
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